Congratulations John Paul and Grace Wishing many years of love and joy to John Paul Curtin and his beautiful bride, Grace OCallaghan. I’m reliably informed Grace is a Mayo woman. She joins a long list of lovely Mayo gals who have fallen under the spell of our local lads! Welcome to the fold, Grace. We’re…
Castleisland’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is going ahead as usual this year. Proceedings will get under way in ‘The Mart Yard’ with gates open at 12 noon. All heavy machinery including floats are asked to come early – according to event spokesman Pat Hartnett. This year the parade will leave the mart grounds at…
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…
After a prolonged period of announcements, unforeseen circumstances, bumps on the road, cancellations, postponements, protests and downright despair at times, we are at the dawn of a most welcome new era. It’s an era with its own set of unknowns but it’s an era in which responsibility for the welfare of one’s health is in…
It has often been said of both Timmy Murphy and Jerry Cremins that the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Castleisland wouldn’t be held without them. And for years, and since it began away back in 1989, it wasn’t. And now it won’t be either – not on March 17th. anyway. Both men are now just…
There are times when separate events in a community line up in perfect reflection of each other. Last night the committee of the annual Castleisland St. Patrick’s Day Parade met to announce its compliance with government policy on mass gatherings. The title of a play across the street in the Ivy Leaf Art Centre appeared…
A meeting to gauge support for the Castleisland St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held in the small bar at the River Island Hotel on this Wednesday night, February 26th at 7pm. Committee members will meet with people with an interest in the development of the hugely successful event and outline the support, financial and…
In spite of the huge turnout in Castleisland for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade there were aspect of the event that people missed this year and intrusions others didn’t appreciate. While the organising committee members under Charlie Farrelly were delighted with the ‘footfall’ on the street during the parade they missed the business floats…
While calling on the huge body of support from this and neighboring parishes the Castleisland St.Patrick’s Day Parade Committee has announced that international race walker, and Castleisland native, Pat Murphy will be Grand Marshall and will lead the town’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 17th from 1pm. On advice from the local garda station…
Following the most recent meeting of the St Patricks Day Parade Committee and local Gardaí the following details were announced. By Pat Hartnett, Committee PRO Thanks to the Castleisland Co-Op Mart Committee the parade will assemble in the mart yard again this year after last year’s successful experiment. Please note that a one-way system will…
