After Saturday’s amazing day-long event, surrounding the official opening of the Georgie O’Callaghan Park, there’s a new endangered species in the Castleisland area. Soccer fans with wellingtons are likely to be consigning their boots to the shed or worse as the new astro turf pitch takes over. It was a day of non-stop activity to…
With an eye on the sky and the weather forecast, Charlie Farrelly told me last night that he’s fulfilling a promise he made to Castleisland’s Special Olympic Champion, Gary O’Sullivan about nine months ago. Lidl to The Ivy Leaf “We are planning to gather at the Lidl car-park on the Tralee Road – opposite the…
The little village of Boolteens / Keel / The Mall has produced many a good native in its time – and I just had a cupán tae and a piece of her baking with one of them. While we sat down to tea her phone alerted her to a great idea being piloted in her…
Deputy Danny Healy-Rae TD has issued a statement to express his disappointment at the snail’s pace of progress on the proposed Macroom Bypass due to a population of the endangered ‘Kerry Slug’ along the chosen route. “I am very disappointed with the announcement that it will cost €2 million to remove the ‘Kerry Slugs’ from…
Cahereen Heights private housing estate, here in Castleisland, has gone through it share of excitement in recent years. Today has been another one of the good days. Kerry County Council decided at its meeting in Killarney today that it is to take over the management of the estate as soon as it is feasible. The…
A reminder of the commemoration this evening at The Crown Hotel here in Castleisland, of the gathering of Irish Volunteers from the area who were at the ready to take part in the Easter Rising of 1916. There will also be a plaque unveiling to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers – which took place…
