90th Birthday Celebrations for Tom Horan of Inch

90th Birthday Celebrations for Tom Horan of Inch

Tom Horan celebrated his 90th birthday with family members and extended family from various parts of Munster and beyond at the Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick recently. The Limerick venue was chosen as a gathering point for family members who wished to be there for the great occasion as it proved a central location for all…

Presentation Sisters to be Honoured by Day Care Centre

Presentation Sisters to be Honoured by Day Care Centre

It is approaching two decades on from the announcement that the Presentation Order in Castleisland had donated the land necessary to facilitate the building of the town’s proposed day care centre. That announcement was made in June 2000 and it meant a full steam ahead programme of work and fundraising to get the plan from…

Use Your Privilege, Check your Booth Location and Vote Early

Use Your Privilege, Check your Booth Location and Vote Early

People of all parties and independents of candidature and mind have all appealed to us, the electorate, to come out today and use our hard won right to vote in fair and open elections. The candidates have done their bit – almost – and it’s now up to us. Polling stations and booths are open…

Political Harmony abounds at Promise-Free ‘Meet the Candidates’

Political Harmony abounds at Promise-Free ‘Meet the Candidates’

Those of us who went to the River Island Hotel, on the recent ‘Meet the Candidates’ night, looking for a cure for all that ails the economy of our town, quite frankly, went to the goat’s house for wool. There was advice in spades and as much encouragement as you could spread, knee deep across the…