Nora Coffey was happy to join her colleagues from the No. 44 Main Street, Castleisland based Kingdom Revamp for her retirement get-together at the River Island Hotel recently. However, there was a bit of a land in store for Nora as a birthday cake rolled into view and an up-scaling of the occasion to a…
Culture Night, September 23rd, will see fiddle player and Sliabh Luachra academic, Matt Cranitch, launch the return of the award winning Handed Down series in the Heritage Centre, Scartaglen. The Handed Down committee is looking forward, with excitement and anticipation, to this season which sees the return of: Nickie McAuliffe, Pádraig MacMathúna, Matt Cranitch, Aoife…
There was clear evidence of pure enjoyment on the town’s Main Street during last weekend’s festival organised and run by members of the Castleisland Racing Festival Ltd. While enjoyment may be hard to quantify and is something that has to be felt or seen at first hand, there was an element of the festival which…
Back after a two year absence is the Castleisland Street Festival which includes the Humphrey Murphy Memorial 5K Fun Run on the streets of the town. The event is organised and run by the Castleisland Racing Festival Ltd – a voluntary group set up and chaired by Cllr. Charlie Farrelly. The group has raised close…
The straws in the wind which blew good news the way of the development of the viewing area at Glounsharoon were hardened up considerably on Friday evening at the River Island Hotel. There, three men sat at a table and signed a contract which cleared the way for work to commence at the greatly admired…
A programme of free events for the 2021 Kerry Mental Health and Wellbeing Fest has been launched with a range of activities to suit all ages from October 9th to 16th. The key focus of the week is to promote mental health and wellbeing in Kerry through a fun and interactive programme of online and…
Thinking and acting along the lines that local and potential tourist attractions could do with all the help they and their promoters can get, Cllr. Bobby O’Connell heard and heeded an appeal on behalf of Glanageenty Walkways. But then the signatory to the appeal was none other than John Lenihan – a former world hill…
Local independent Kerry County Councillor Charlie Farrelly, who is also a member of the council’s Local Community Development Committee and the Local Action Group has welcomed the granting of Leader funding of €148,674 to the Firies based Kerry Food Hub. Six More Units Planned The food hub was built in Firies in 2016 and consisted…
Building on the success of and feedback from the week-long Kerry Mental Health and Wellbeing Fest held in October, the interagency committee have organised a series of free online mindfulness and chair yoga sessions to take place for 15 minutes each weekday from 30th November to 18th December. These morning mindfulness sessions from 11am –…
Even from a cursory glance through the following art strewn message from Kerry County Council and a palette of its arty friends – via Cllr. Bobby O’Connell – one could be absolved and forgiven even for thinking that a mass movement of art and artists is about to consume Kerry – at least. Sample…
