Anyone looking for a session of music tonight should come to Castleisland – where they will have a choice of two sessions at opposite ends of the town. Browne’s bar will have its usual and long running session from 10pm – where new musicians are always made welcome. Launch and Tunes Then on the other…
Congratulations to Domhnall McCarthy who won €1,054 in last weekend’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket Draw at The Halfway Bar in Ballymacelligott. This Saturday night’s STB draw will be held in Browne’s Bar, Castleisland from 10pm. “All funds raised have been ploughed back into the club with over €50,000 alone invested on the pitches and…
Three generations of the extended McCarthy family from Castleisland rolled back over a century of family history when they hosted a family reunion in Browne’s Bar on Saturday night 16th February 2019. More than 80 people attended the special event where stories, family folklore and memories were shared in a night of nostalgia. The younger…
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…
Acclaimed Clare artist SON, a.k.a Susan O’Neill will take to the Island Sessions stage in Browne’s Bar on this Saturday night, November 10th at 8pm. SON’s truly phenomenal husky voice has been compared by Hotpress to Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin. Sit Down Gig Co-organiser, Kate McSweeney sets out her stall on the concept of…
Amber Jones is a seven year old Castleisland girl at the centre of a fundraising drive being organised by neighbours and friends at present. Amber is severely brain damaged and her mom, Sarah Louise, suspects she also has mitochondrial complications to cope with. Adapted Wheelchair The reason for the fundraising drive is that Amber needs…
Tonight is Culture Night across the country and over 50 free events will be held around Kerry as part of the annual, national celebration of culture. In Scartaglin 8pm to 9pm With guest presenter, Matt Cranitch, musicians and performers from the Sliabh Luachra area, the launch of the fifth series of the Handed Down lectures…
Vacant buildings, empty shops, underused spaces and premises can be re-purposed and rea-imagined for civic use under a new Creative Ireland Kerry project called Re-imagining Kerry’s Vacant Sites. The project links artists to underused and vacant sites allowing the artists to reimagine the space and how it might be used in the future or offer…
In the run-up to last weekend, members of Castleisland Rugby Club put buckets and envelopes into a number of shops and pubs throughout the town. They were launching, they said, their new fundraising idea Split the Bucket in the Castleisland area. The idea was simplified to the last before its launch at the Shoemaker’s Bar…
The winner of the Mike Kenny Remembrance Week Young Musician Award is Abbeyfeale singer and teenager, Eibhlín Broderick. Eibhlín began her singing career at five years age with her local Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireannn branch at Halla Inse Bán in Templeglantine. Masters in Traditional Song A recent term as a student at the University of Limerick…
