Culture Night, September 23rd, will see fiddle player and Sliabh Luachra academic, Matt Cranitch, launch the return of the award winning Handed Down series in the Heritage Centre, Scartaglen. The Handed Down committee is looking forward, with excitement and anticipation, to this season which sees the return of: Nickie McAuliffe, Pádraig MacMathúna, Matt Cranitch, Aoife…
Representatives of Castleisland Parish recently handed over €25,014.37 to Brosna Parish to ease the debt due to the renovation works done on their Parish Church some years ago. The money was raised by a collection taken up on the three churches of the parish: Castleisland, Cordal and Scartaglin. There was also a charity concert on…
A special Fund- raising weekend will take place on December 3rd to 5th 2016 in Castleisland parish to help reduce the debt in neighbouring Brosna Parish Church. The substantial debt arises from the renovations works done on the church in the 2008 /09 period. Monsignor Dan O’Riordan P.P. Castleisland said that the fundraising effort was…
It’s been an annual event since it was introduced as a great idea to the public here in August 2007. From the outset it welcomed the man and woman with the common bike as much as it did those with the racers. A bunch of 120 cyclists of all abilities set off as the clock…
The Castleisland Bereavement Group has issued an open invitation to people of the locality and beyond to ‘Consider Yourself One of Us’ for a day trip to South Kerry. And there isn’t a hint of Faginism in the overall cost. The event will take place on Saturday, August 23rd and an O’Connor’s Coach will leave…
