Recent Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket draw winners, Paul Knight and Dan O’Connor collected their winnings of €703 and €702 respectively. Club members, John Riordan made the presentation to Paul Knight at the Fountain Bar and Dan O’Connor collected his winnings from Kevin Lenihan at The Crageens. The draw at The Fountain Bar on Saturday…
The ancient game of darts has enjoyed several periods of boom and burst in the life and times of the public house trade in Castleisland. It was huge in the mid to late 1960s and right up and into the ’70s until the appearance of the first pool tables on the scene here. With the…
Last week’s Castleisland AFC Split the Bucket winner, Catherine Doran from Brosna collected her winning cheque for €940 from Thomas Mann of the Crown Bar at Saturday night’s draw. As draw host, Tomas pulled out this week’s winner. An online entry for local woman Pamela Kinahan won her €925 and she will collect her…
As last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket winnner, Brid Brosnan was collecting her cheque for €940 from Cathriona O’Connor-Daly from the Fountain Bar last Saturday night, Cathriona also pulled out this week’s lucky winner. And it proved to be second time lucky and lightening strikes twice and all that for Knocknagoshel man, Pat Curtin – an online winnerof €938. It was a year…
Around this time a decade ago, a bar full of family, neighbours and friends at ‘The Fountain’ wished Michael ‘Mikey’ Conway a happy 80th birthday and they wished him many more. They got their wish and now 10 years on today he’s marking his 90th and looking and sounding more like a man half of…
The winner of the Castleisland Split the Bucket draw held in the Fountain Bar on Saturday 29th February 29th was Elizabeth Culhane. Elizabeth won €1,039. The next draw will be held in Tom McCarthy’s Bar on this Saturday 7th March. Split the Bucket – How to Play Buckets and envelopes are available in pubs and…
The winner of the Split the Bucket draw held in The Halfway Bar in Ballymacelligott on Saturday, February 22nd was Joe O’Callaghan. Joe won €1,266. Taxi driver, Joe is one of the lucky few to have won the draw twice as his envelope was pulled from the drum previously on September 22-2018 and he won…
The winner of last Saturday night’s Split the Bucket draw which was held in the Fountain Bar on December 7th. was Shane Brennan, Killarney Road. Shane won €1,150. The next draw will be held in The Halfway Bar, Ballymacelligott on Saturday, December 14th. Split the Bucket – How to Play Buckets and envelopes are available…
The death has occurred of Mike ‘Curly Mike’ O’Connor, Dooneen, Castleisland, Co. Kerry. On November 4th 2019, peacefully, surrounded by his loving family in the excellent care of the I.C.U. team at University Hospital, Limerick. Sadly missed by his loving wife Kathleen Murphy, his adored family: Ann Marie, Jim, Mary, Siobhán and Daniel, his cherished…
The Palliative Care Unit of the Kerry Hospice Foundation will be the beneficiary of Castleisland Rugby Club’s half of the innovative ‘Split The Bucket Draw’ on its first event of 2019 which will take place on this Friday night, January 4th. The draw will be held in The Half Way Bar in Ballymacelligott. Pushing for…
