Castleisland Tidy Towns and Knocknagoshel Tidy Towns are both delighted to announce that they have been awarded funding under the Community Water Development Fund. This is a grant offered by the local authority waters programme office on behalf of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. By Shane McAuliffe The funding aims to support…
The success of Johnnie Roche’s recently published book, Listowel to The Liffey has taken him aback, somewhat. And that took some doing as anyone who knows him will understand. I took a phone call in the middle of Galway City last Thursday from a lady in some branch of Easons in Kerry looking for his…
A new book on the great National Farmers’ Association march on Dublin in 1966 will be launched at the River Island Hotel here in Castleisland on Friday night at 8:30pm. This is a real insider’s view of the goings on of that time and the struggle by Irish farmers for a recognition that their livelihoods…
