A bit of good news came the way of voluntary groups throughout the county this week with the announcement of grants under the Community Support Fund. Castleisland Tidy Towns Castleisland Tidy Towns, Castleisland Town Park Committee and the Castleisland based Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival were all grant recipients. Castleisland Tidy Towns received €1,500 to…
Cllr. Bobby O’Connell has welcomed the announcement that the Castleisland area is to get an allocation of €22,450 spread across a wide range of clubs, groups and organisations under the Community Support Fund for 2019. Castleisland itself along with Cordal, Currow and Farranfore will share the above sum for projects in their respective areas, Kerry…
Friends and family gathered at Herlihy’s Bar in Farranfore on the occasion of Nollaig Na mBan on Friday night to witness the final curtain call on the village’s oldest business. It fell to Marie O’Sullivan to take the tough decision to close yet another of Kerry’s most historic public houses. It is no disrespect to…
Farranfore will be full of Christmas cheer on Sunday, December 4th. The Farranfore Development Association is hosting its annual Family Christmas Fun Day in the GAA hall in Farranfore from 2pm. This will be preceded by the formal dedication ceremony of the Farranfore 1916 Memorial at 1pm. Richard Sherwood, Chairman of the Farranfore Development Association,…
Of all the Tidy Towns reports from the towns and villages in the area, the one on Farranfore must be one of the most satisfying to the committee involved with its development and presentation. Apart from a strand of ivy taking hold on a wall there, the adjudicator found no reason at all to raise…
Cllr. Bobby O’Connell (FG) has just announced that several Tidy Towns groups in the area are to benefit from a cash windfall under the ‘Public Area Enhancement Scheme’ – under which an allocation of €90,000 has been marked for Kerry. The Castleisland group will receive €2,250 as will Farranfore while Currow’s wild flower meadow project…
