Castleisland Camera Club will hold its AGM on Thursday night, February 7th at 7.30pm in the RCC Building, Tralee Road Industrial Estate. New members will be welcomed. In existence since March 2017, the club has had a couple of very successful charity exhibitions / coffee mornings, talks and outings. Meanwhile, club members and photography enthusiasts…
A change of career after the move overseas of the Aetna insurance processing office on the Tralee Road Industrial Estate has led Cordal native, James O’Donoghue to an honours degree in professional social care. “I worked in Aetna until it relocated to India in the summer of 2011. In October of that year I was…
Private bus operators throughout Castleisland and its hinterland will gather on Tralee Road on Friday morning in preparation for a protest drive through the town. Members of Kerry Private Bus Operators have chosen the Tralee Road Industrial Estate as the meeting point for their protest and they are advising fellow operators to be there at…
The dreaded emergency general meeting – which befalls people on the floors of companies up and down the country – came knocking on the door of the Heineken plant here in Castleisland last week. The proverbial ‘man from the company’ informed the staff there that all nine jobs were being shed and that the plant…
The wailing of ambulance, Garda and fire brigade sirens alerted the locality to the fact that someone in the community was in a spot of bother shortly after 8am this morning. The focus of attention was a road traffic accident on the Tralee Road in front of Walsh Colour Print. Traffic was cut to a…
And now for something completely different. This week our Friday Favourite looks back on an event of just ten short years ago. The world was a different place then. Even though there were still People in Need there was a feeling that a great, nation-wide effort could sate so much of that need. But what…
