A truly festive, musical treat is in store for the Kingdom as preparations are well underway in Castle Island for the annual Con Houlihan Memorial Christmas Concert. The event takes please on Saturday 17th December from 8pm with doors open at 7-30pm at the River Island Hotel in Castle Island and a host of special…
Castleisland Rugby Club has secured the services and talents of composer/musician/story-teller and former ‘Dubliner’ John Sheahan for this year’s Con Houlihan Memorial Festival. Though last year’s event was held over the final week of September, this year’s will now be much later on account of the Run the Runway event taking up the organisational resources…
Castleisland and its irrepressible Tidy Towns working group and its growing off-shoots gained a fine, eight points in total over last year’s adjudication. While that’s heartening in itself, so too is the fact that there were gains in all but one of the eight categories of the competition. And there was no point loss in…
Before the dusk robs us of the last of the light of this August 4th 2016 I just wanted to remember the late and great Con Houlihan who died on this day in 2012. Over the past few years I have marked the anniversary and the day with a piece of Con’s genius. There are…
I thought it would be a fright to let the day pass without acknowledging the second anniversary of the passing of the truly great Con Houlihan. Looking back on it now, we were blessed at the vision and perseverance of Tralee native, documentary maker, Maurice Healy in getting the ‘Waiting for Houlihan’ in the can…
