Castleisland Desmonds ladies celebrated their Kerry and Munster success in style at the River Island Hotel last Saturday night with a lovely four course meal, a special souvenir booklet, a few speeches, and the all important presentations of the winning medals. Report: Dan Kearney There was plenty craic as well of course and the disco…
The draw for the Castleisland Desmonds Ladies Gaelic Football Club Christmas Raffle was held on an evening just before Christmas and there were 67 prizes and an equal number of winners announced. The raffle ticket sales, which began back in September, was anchored and conducted by Mary Geaney at her family premises at No. 65…
You’ll find all the column inches you need in every newspaper you see this week on the retirement of Ballymacelligott’s own Irish rugby team captain, Ciara Griffin. You’ll read all about her exploits on Irish and foreign fields and she earned and deserves every line. Here, her fellow parishioner, Cllr. Fionnán Fitzgerald put pen to…
Castleisland Desmonds 4-17 Austin Stacks 2-3. Desmonds ladies travelled to Tralee on a lovely autumn morning last Sunday where they played Stacks in their first game of this year’s Randles Brothers County Intermediate Championship. By Gerdie Murphy The visiting team rushed into the lead with some excellent scores from the boots of Lorraine Scanlon…
On a warm Easter Sunday, a large crowd enjoyed the local hospitality at Cllr. Pat McCarthy’s Local Election get-together in The Half Way Bar in Ballymacelligott. Seán Kelly MEP Guest Sean Kelly, MEP was the guest speaker on the occasion and he outlined Pat’s career to date in Kerry. Cllr. McCarthy was first elected for…
Listowel native, John ‘Junior’ Griffin is one of Kerry badminton’s best known officials. Now he has to share the ‘Junior Griffin’ moniker with Kerry’s latest rugby star, Ciara Griffin of Ballymacelligott. Ciara Griffin – known as ‘Junior’ to her friends, plays her club rugby with Tralee and with Munster. She made her international debut against…
