On specific autumn Sundays, since 2007, Castleisland Day Care Centre has held its charity / fundraising cycle. Once the summer was over and the evenings began to shorten, the call went out for cyclists to get in gear for the first Sunday in September – and they never failed to oblige. It was all so…
An artist’s residency of an almost two months duration came to fruition at Castleisland Area Services Centre on Thursday afternoon. A residency is when a professional artist is formally attached to a university or community facility and often on a specific project and time frame. This usually benefits the development of the artist and the…
Castleisland Camera Club has enjoyed another great year of activity on several fronts. The year culminated in the presentation of a €300 cheque to Castleisland Day Care Centre. This was raised by the club’s November 30th. exhibition and sale at the Ivy Leaf Art Centre and in conjunction with local photographic historian, Timothy Murphy and…
An official statement was issued earlier today by the Castleisland Parish Office with the news that Monsignor Dan O’Riordan’s official duties as a Parish Priest will conclude with the Vigil Mass on Saturday, July 13th. As a preamble to the statement, the office also provided some background on ‘Fr. Dan’s’ career. “Fr. Dan’s retirement comes…
Breda McGaley was part of the recent Carrauntoohil Climb on Saturday August 5th as part of a fundraiser for the Ray of Sunshine Foundation. Hannah Curtin, Charlie Farrelly, Martina O’Mahony and Willie Reidy are travelling to Kenya early next spring. Breda is a keen photographer and a founder member of the Castleisland Camera Club –…
It’s an enduringly sad and sorrowful story of the betrayal of a good man. It’s one that darkened the whole of Holy Week ever since the first, or certainly most celebrated, crucifixion over 2,000 years ago. Its dramatic story line and turns and twists in the telling is what grips us and draws us back…
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 Friday Favourite / Postcard from the Past this week is all about Cordal and on a special Saturday in June 2004. Their youth club of the time won the All-Ireland YC Basketball title and they arrived home in triumph on that Saturday evening in June. There was great hulabaloo on the street and I just…
