The ancient game of darts has enjoyed several periods of boom and burst in the life and times of the public house trade in Castleisland. It was huge in the mid to late 1960s and right up and into the ’70s until the appearance of the first pool tables on the scene here. With the…
Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket winner Katie Murphy from Knocknagoshel collected her winnings of €900 from club Chairman Bill Horgan at Hughes’ Bar in Cordal on Saturday night. Katie then did the honours on behalf of the premises and drew this week’s winner from the drum. Marian Walsh from Castleisland is a second time winner and…
Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket second-time winner Ester Murphy, Tullig collected her cheque for €970 from club committee member, Kevin Lenihan at the draw at Tom McCarthy’s Central Bar on Saturday night. Barman Jack Curran picked out this week’s winner and it turned out to be his own grandmother, Mary McCarthy for a €950 win. The club sends…
Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket winner Andy McSweeney from Kanturk collected his winnings of €1,003 from Margaret at Moloneys Bakery. Draw host, Margaret then picked out this week’s winner and local woman Margret Mitchell will be collecting a cheque €967 on the coming Saturday. Margaret filled in her details and popped in her…
Last week’s Split the Bucket winners, Norma O’Connor-Flynn her daughter, Orla Flynn and Norma’s sister. Bridget O’Sullivan collected their winning cheque for €970 from Colum Nolan at Tom McCarthy’s Bar during last Saturday’s draw. Host, Tom then drew out this week’s winner and it turned out to be fellow publican, Steve Curtin from The Shoemaker’s Bar. Steve…
Margaret Jones from Currow was last week’s winner of the Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket bank holiday special draw prize of €1,000. Margaret collected her prize at Saturday’s draw at Den Joe’s on Church Street from draw host Angela O’Connor. She was accompanied by her nephew and niece Jamie and Kerrie O’Connor. Angela also picked out this week’s winning envelope…
There was an almost overwhelming feeling of joy and relief at last weekend’s World Fiddle Day Scartaglen. Joy and relief at the fact that people were able to gather in the one place, shake hands, hug and tell each other face-to-face how good it was to be able to do so. That the weather facilitated…
The greatly anticipated Castleisland Rugby Club’s Split the Bucket prize of €2,000 went across the border to Abbyfeale. The lucky winner of the ‘New Year Cracker Draw’ was Liam McEnery. Liam decorated his envelope with coin and information in Tom McCarthy’s Bar. The next next draw will be held outside Moloney’s Bakery on Saturday evening.…
For the first time since Covid-19 struck here in March 2020 the winners’ share of the Castleisland Rugby Club’s Split the Bucket draw is threatening the €1,000 line again. In the course of the lock-down the club offered to make ‘thousandaires’ of their draw supporters and it proved a great success. Now, with normality beginning…
It was this time last year that the tsunami we came to know as the coronavirus was beginning to take a stranglehold on the cultural and commercial life of the country and the world. In all innocence we hoped it wouldn’t impinge on our famous St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and there was a would it…
