Category Archives: Farranfore

Transition Year Students in St. Pat’s – Social Innovators of the Future

Transition Year Students in St. Pat’s – Social Innovators of the Future

Transition Year students in St. Patrick’s Secondary School have started on their journey to become social innovators of the future. As part of their Community Care module TY students are completing a new programme called Young Social Innovators Ignite. Young Social Innovator (YSI) is a programme that the school has engaged with a number of… Read more…

The Late Eamonn Walsh, Brookside, Bettystown, Co. Meath and Cordal, Co. Kerry

The Late Eamonn Walsh, Brookside, Bettystown, Co. Meath and Cordal, Co. Kerry

The death has occurred of Eamonn Walsh, Brookside, Bettystown, Co. Meath and Cordal, Co. Kerry. On September 20th 2023, peacefully, following an accident in Spain. Beloved son of Dick and Valerie and loving brother of Eadaoin, Muireann and Richard. Adored uncle of Ronan, Fiona, Fionn, Aisling, Tom and Oisín. Sadly missed by his parents, sisters,… Read more…

National Highly Commended Tidy Towns Award for Castleisland Community College

National Highly Commended Tidy Towns Award for Castleisland Community College

Castleisland Community College received a National Highly Commended Award in the Tidy Towns Circular Economy Category 2022. The efforts by both students and teachers to promote a sustainable lifestyle were certainly rewarded with this acknowledgement along with 500 euros prize money. Transition Year students of 2021/22 decided to enhance the river walk in consultation with… Read more…

Scheduled Road Maintenance Work Brought Forward and Started this Morning

Scheduled Road Maintenance Work Brought Forward and Started this Morning

The scheduled, routine maintenance works on the Castleisland Bypass which was due to begin early next month has been brought forward and work has actually begun there this morning, Monday, September 25th at 8am. Councillors Charlie Farrelly and Fionnán Fitzgerald were informed and they have relayed the information for the benefit of their constituents. Needless… Read more…

Peter Presents Mossie with €800 Split Cheque and Plucks Josie’s Ticket for €760

Peter Presents Mossie with €800 Split Cheque and Plucks Josie’s Ticket for €760

Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket draw winner, Mossie O’Leary collected his €800 winnings from draw host Peter Browne at Browne’s Bar on Saturday night. Peter then dipped into the draw drum and picked out this week’s winner. Josie O’Mahony from Cahereen Heights is the holder of this week’s lucky entry and she will… Read more…

P.J. to Receive PO’K Award in a Year of Rounded up Anniversaries

P.J. to Receive PO’K Award in a Year of Rounded up Anniversaries

This is a huge year for anniversaries somehow. You can’t turn these days but you’ll bump into an anniversary of one sort or another – and we’re not even thinking about JFK and Dallas and November. Locally and musically it’s no different. I mentioned here earlier this year that we raised glasses of heart and… Read more…

Cruinniú Na nÓg Call out to Educators for 2024

Cruinniú Na nÓg Call out to Educators for 2024

Kerry County Council is inviting expressions of interest from educators to elect their school or youth groups to participate in gaining insights from young people about Creative Events in their area. This will be in the form of an interactive, engaging one-hour workshop with a creative practitioner. We want to hear the voice of the… Read more…

Public Services and Facilities Withheld in Fórsa Industrial Action – Cllr. Cahill

Public Services and Facilities Withheld in Fórsa Industrial Action – Cllr. Cahill

Kerry Fianna Fáil County Councillor, Michael Cahill has called on both the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) and the Fórsa Trade Union to agree a conciliation process to resolve the issues at the heart of the present industrial action. As part of this dispute, members of Fórsa have put an indefinite ban on engagement on… Read more…

Micheál’s €1,000 Collected as Mossie’s €800 Winner is Picked at Tom’s by Breda

Micheál’s €1,000 Collected as Mossie’s €800 Winner is Picked at Tom’s by Breda

This week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket Draw €800 winner is an on-line player, Mossie O’Leary from Lyreacrompane. Mossie’s ticket was drawn at Tom McCarthy’s Central Bar by Breda McCarthy. Last week’s €1,000 winner, Micheál Reidy, Castleisland and Galway, had his cheque collected by his mom Cathleen from club PRO Brian O’Sullivan earlier in the week. Next weekend’s draw will… Read more…

Deputy Danny, the President, the Tánaiste on Changing Irish Diets

Deputy Danny, the President, the Tánaiste on Changing Irish Diets

“President Michael D. Higgins is over-stepping his role by getting involved in the climate action debate where he is advising people to eat more plant based food and change their diet,” said Deputy Danny Healy Rae. His statement came in response to an inclusion in a speech made by President Higgins at the National Ploughing… Read more…

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Category Archives: Farranfore

Transition Year Students in St. Pat’s – Social Innovators of the Future

Transition Year Students in St. Pat’s – Social Innovators of the Future

Transition Year students in St. Patrick’s Secondary School have started on their journey to become social innovators of the future. As part of their Community Care module TY students are completing a new programme called Young Social Innovators Ignite. Young Social Innovator (YSI) is a programme that the school has engaged with a number of… Read more…

The Late Eamonn Walsh, Brookside, Bettystown, Co. Meath and Cordal, Co. Kerry

The Late Eamonn Walsh, Brookside, Bettystown, Co. Meath and Cordal, Co. Kerry

The death has occurred of Eamonn Walsh, Brookside, Bettystown, Co. Meath and Cordal, Co. Kerry. On September 20th 2023, peacefully, following an accident in Spain. Beloved son of Dick and Valerie and loving brother of Eadaoin, Muireann and Richard. Adored uncle of Ronan, Fiona, Fionn, Aisling, Tom and Oisín. Sadly missed by his parents, sisters,… Read more…

National Highly Commended Tidy Towns Award for Castleisland Community College

National Highly Commended Tidy Towns Award for Castleisland Community College

Castleisland Community College received a National Highly Commended Award in the Tidy Towns Circular Economy Category 2022. The efforts by both students and teachers to promote a sustainable lifestyle were certainly rewarded with this acknowledgement along with 500 euros prize money. Transition Year students of 2021/22 decided to enhance the river walk in consultation with… Read more…

Scheduled Road Maintenance Work Brought Forward and Started this Morning

Scheduled Road Maintenance Work Brought Forward and Started this Morning

The scheduled, routine maintenance works on the Castleisland Bypass which was due to begin early next month has been brought forward and work has actually begun there this morning, Monday, September 25th at 8am. Councillors Charlie Farrelly and Fionnán Fitzgerald were informed and they have relayed the information for the benefit of their constituents. Needless… Read more…

Peter Presents Mossie with €800 Split Cheque and Plucks Josie’s Ticket for €760

Peter Presents Mossie with €800 Split Cheque and Plucks Josie’s Ticket for €760

Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket draw winner, Mossie O’Leary collected his €800 winnings from draw host Peter Browne at Browne’s Bar on Saturday night. Peter then dipped into the draw drum and picked out this week’s winner. Josie O’Mahony from Cahereen Heights is the holder of this week’s lucky entry and she will… Read more…

P.J. to Receive PO’K Award in a Year of Rounded up Anniversaries

P.J. to Receive PO’K Award in a Year of Rounded up Anniversaries

This is a huge year for anniversaries somehow. You can’t turn these days but you’ll bump into an anniversary of one sort or another – and we’re not even thinking about JFK and Dallas and November. Locally and musically it’s no different. I mentioned here earlier this year that we raised glasses of heart and… Read more…

Cruinniú Na nÓg Call out to Educators for 2024

Cruinniú Na nÓg Call out to Educators for 2024

Kerry County Council is inviting expressions of interest from educators to elect their school or youth groups to participate in gaining insights from young people about Creative Events in their area. This will be in the form of an interactive, engaging one-hour workshop with a creative practitioner. We want to hear the voice of the… Read more…

Public Services and Facilities Withheld in Fórsa Industrial Action – Cllr. Cahill

Public Services and Facilities Withheld in Fórsa Industrial Action – Cllr. Cahill

Kerry Fianna Fáil County Councillor, Michael Cahill has called on both the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) and the Fórsa Trade Union to agree a conciliation process to resolve the issues at the heart of the present industrial action. As part of this dispute, members of Fórsa have put an indefinite ban on engagement on… Read more…

Micheál’s €1,000 Collected as Mossie’s €800 Winner is Picked at Tom’s by Breda

Micheál’s €1,000 Collected as Mossie’s €800 Winner is Picked at Tom’s by Breda

This week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket Draw €800 winner is an on-line player, Mossie O’Leary from Lyreacrompane. Mossie’s ticket was drawn at Tom McCarthy’s Central Bar by Breda McCarthy. Last week’s €1,000 winner, Micheál Reidy, Castleisland and Galway, had his cheque collected by his mom Cathleen from club PRO Brian O’Sullivan earlier in the week. Next weekend’s draw will… Read more…

Deputy Danny, the President, the Tánaiste on Changing Irish Diets

Deputy Danny, the President, the Tánaiste on Changing Irish Diets

“President Michael D. Higgins is over-stepping his role by getting involved in the climate action debate where he is advising people to eat more plant based food and change their diet,” said Deputy Danny Healy Rae. His statement came in response to an inclusion in a speech made by President Higgins at the National Ploughing… Read more…

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