Seán Kelly, MEP for Ireland South welcomed over 90 representatives from Kerry Co-Operative Creameries to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Monday, October 2nd. The group enjoyed a tour of the Parliament building and had the opportunity to observe the parliament’s plenary session. The tour was followed by a productive discussion with MEP Kelly on…
On a warm Easter Sunday, a large crowd enjoyed the local hospitality at Cllr. Pat McCarthy’s Local Election get-together in The Half Way Bar in Ballymacelligott. Seán Kelly MEP Guest Sean Kelly, MEP was the guest speaker on the occasion and he outlined Pat’s career to date in Kerry. Cllr. McCarthy was first elected for…
A commemoration will be held in Brosna of the life and times of Bartholomew ‘Batt’ O’Connor on Sunday, February 17th 2019 at 2pm. The event will be held in The Square in the village at 2pm and Seán Kelly, MEP will be the guest of honour and he will unveil a plaque in memory of…
Unveiling of the Tom Wrenn Memorial Stand Saturday, June 24th was a poignant evening for the club as the community and its friends gathered together in Cordal’s blue and gold abode to pay a lasting tribute in the memory of Tom Wrenn, former Cordal GAA Club chairman, church sacristan and an upstanding member of the…
The death has occurred of Jimmy Roche, Breahig, Cordal, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, suddenly on June 2nd, 2017. Sadly missed by his heartbroken wife Joan, his family John, Timmy, James and Anne Marie, daughters-in-law, Cathie, Marie and Sharmayne, his adored grandsons James and Sean, brother Ulick, sisters Nora, Helen, Brigid and Anne, all extended family, relatives,…
The Castleisland parade to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of Bord na nÓg in Kerry proved a colourful spectacle of excitement and the kind of exuberance that only children are capable of creating on days like this. While the parade was a celebration of the past – the very distant past – for…
Kerry Young Fine Gael held its 2017 AGM in the Killarney Plaza Hotel at the weekend. The central theme behind the event was positive physical and mental health; an area in which Young Fine Gael is currently developing new, dynamic policy. Report by Art O’Mahony In conjunction with this idea, we held an indoor soccer…
A couple of weeks ago Currow teenager, Eimear Horgan was preparing to take part in the European Youth Event (EYE) which took place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg from 20-21 May. The St. Joseph’s Presentation Secondary, Castleisland student did just that with a group of fellow students from around the county and beyond. The…
If you ever needed to epotomise or personify the oft used phrase ‘A Community Man’ – then, Tom Wrenn fitted every imaginable category of that broad sweep. Every baptised child, every holy communion, confirmation, wedding – Tom was there as parish clerk at all the important points in the circle of life of so many…
