Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket Draw winner Mary McCarthy of The Central Bar collected her winnings of €950 from Eileen O’Connor at Eileen’s Cafe. And the big news from this week’s draw is that any member of the Split the Bucket lucky Murphy family didn’t win the pot as Eileen picked out Patricia…
Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket second-time winner Ester Murphy, Tullig collected her cheque for €970 from club committee member, Kevin Lenihan at the draw at Tom McCarthy’s Central Bar on Saturday night. Barman Jack Curran picked out this week’s winner and it turned out to be his own grandmother, Mary McCarthy for a €950 win. The club sends…
It was this time last year that the tsunami we came to know as the coronavirus was beginning to take a stranglehold on the cultural and commercial life of the country and the world. In all innocence we hoped it wouldn’t impinge on our famous St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and there was a would it…
Castleisland is to be the focus of an unprecedented level of television exposure over the next few weeks. And it starts on this very Sunday morning, February 11th with Fr. Dan O’Riordan as he celebrates Mass live on RTÉ One Television and Radio One at 11am along with Castleisland Parish Choir. Rehearsals have been ongoing…
Bride to be Katie Brosnan was the focus of the loving attention of her circle of friends at Tom McCarthy’s Central Bar this morning. The gathering of immediate family and very close friends had a mission in mind and there was nothing impossible about it. There was a window of opportunity for photographs, booked weeks…
Peter Browne, broadcaster and piper, will return to the source of arguably his finest piece of collecting and radio broadcasting work in the course of his ongoing career. He will present his talk: In Search of Padraig – The Making of the RTÉ Radio One Documentary in Scartaglin on Saturday night. That he managed to…
