FESTIVAL: Development Association. Moyvane Village Festival 2025 –
the 32nd Moyvane Village Festival a fantastic weekend lined up for the
October Bank Holiday Friday 24th – Monday 27th October.
POLLING day 24th October, Polling cards could be sent to mobile
phones, saving a pile of paper.
SCOR na nÓg, if your child would like to represent their club and
parish in any of the competitions below please contact our officers.
Please note u17s is the oldest age available. Lisa (086) 053 7310,
Laura (087) 116 3040.
FUN DAY: Knockanure family fun day rescheduled day on the 12th of Oct
starting at 1 o clock at Knockanure GAA Field. We have sport day
activities ,penalties shoot outs, tug of war, meet our local stars ,
disco, hang tough, The fittest team obstacle course, magician and lots
more activities on the day and bake sale . We also have Teddy bear
hospital remember to bring your Teddy bear it sure to get checked out.
All are welcome. It to raise funds for Scoil Chorp Chriost outdoor
equipment.
CHURCH: Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics to pray the Rosary daily during
October for Peace. In a World where you can be anything, be KIND.
2nd Collection at all Masses next weekend 18th & 19th Oct. for Mission
Sunday. The Mission Sunday Collection is vital to financing missionary
work worldwide. The mission projects worldwide are coordinated by
Missio Head Office in Rome and the money goes direct from Ireland to
specific projects worldwide. Last year €1.4 million was contributed
from Ireland. Give your donation in honour of Irish Missionaries,
female and male, past and present.
The National Synodal Gathering is scheduled for Saturday week in Kilkenny.
Mon. 13th Oct. 3pm we remember the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima in
1917. The rosary and Divine Mercy chaplet will be recited on Main St
Killarney in honour of Our Lady’s wish in Fatima to pray the rosary
for peace. A statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be present. Anyone
wishing to have a visit of this Statue in their homes contact Patricia
087-9048659.
MINDFULNESS with Rosemarie will be held at Knockanure Community Centre
for 3 weeks starting on October 15th, 7.30pm to 8.30pm. €10 per
session. Refreshments after. Everybody welcome.
MUSIC: Moyvane Village Hub Traditional evening Sunday evening 12th
Oct. from 7pm-10pm. Music, song and story. Refreshments will be
served.
LOST a Baby: Annual UHK Remembrance Service for Parents and their
families who have lost a baby, Sun. Oct 12th in the Hospital Chapel
2.30pm. All welcome.
SUPPORT: Anam Cara monthly Bereaved Parent Support Evening Tues. 14th
Oct. 7.30pm Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee. Also, hosting an Online
Bereavement Information Evening Thurs. 30th Oct. 7pm. See Church
Noticeboard.
FUNDRAISER FOR TRALEE HOSPICE: Moyvane Parish fundraising concert
will take place at the Tintean Theatre, Ballybunion on Sunday 30th
Nov, 2025. Our guest artist is Frank Mc Namara and his guests.
Include, Tomas O Shea from Riverdance, Megan Ruby Walsh from Celtic
Women and professional musician Ann Phelan. The charity we are working
with is Palliative Care/Hospice, Tralee. They are building an
extension, incorporating extra bedrooms, as well as facilities for
children and families. The cost of the project is €6 million. Our
target is to raise €100,000 euro for this most worthy cause. Along
with the concert we are having a fundraising draw. We have fantastic
prizes.
ANNIVERSARIES: Sr. Martina Relihan, Betty Kennelly, Sr. Mary Kirby,
Dan Keane, Bishop Donal Murray, John Lynch, Val Murphy, Michael
Finucane, Fr. Hallie Ashe, Brendan Kennelly, Betty O Carroll,
Margarite Windle, Eileen O Connor,
MASS INTENTIONS: Sat. 11th Oct.’25 Moyvane for Michael O’Connell (1st
Aniv.), Ahalahanna, Joan & Gerard McEnery (Aniv.’s) Tubbertoreen at
7.30pm
Sun. 12th Oct.’25 Knockanure at 9.30am, and Mass Moyvane at 11am;
Tues. 14th Oct.’25 Moyvane, Mass followed by Eucharistic Adoration at
10am; Weds. 15th Oct.’25 Knockanure at 10am; Thurs. 16th
Oct.’25 Moyvane at 10am; Fri. 17th Oct.’25 Knockanure at
10am; Sat. 18th Oct.’25, Moyvane for Nora O’Donoghue nee Leahy & baby
Leah O’Donoghue, (Aniv.’s) Perth & Moyvane.
Pat, Bridge & Dick Stack & Ellen Stack (Aniv.’s) Drommurhur. Liam
Sexton (Aniv.) & deceased of Sexton family at 7.30pm; Sun. 19th
Oct.’25 Knockanure for Josie Clancy (Month’s Mind), Knockanure at
9.30am, and Mass Moyvane for Paddy & Maureen Fitzmaurice (Aniv.’s)
Gortdromasilihy at 11am.
GAA Knockanure Lotto Results for 7th of October 2025. Jackpot was
E5,900. No Winner. Winning Numbers were, 22-5-17 and 32. Lucky Dip
winners, Johnny Flynn, c/o Jim Greaney; Eamon and Mags Whyte,
Lissaniskea; Donal Stack, Moyvane; J. J. Clancy, Knockanure and Eithne
Scannell, Tarbert Rd., Listowel. Next Draw on Oct 14th and the Jackpot
will be E6,000.
ST JOHNS: Concert | Drawing From The Well on Thursday 23rd October at
St. John’s Theatre & Arts Centre.
FILM night at the Clounmacon centre, thanks to Finucane Films on
Friday 17th October. Clounmacon Community Centre V31PF95.
Refreshments Served.
CLOUNMACON SCHOOL BUILT IN 1878, In 1975 Clounmacon school was turned
into a community centre. A lot of functions took place, card games,
plays, meetings, dancing classes with Jimmy Hickey. In 1978 the
Centenary of this building (100 years) was celebrated with the young
and the elderly of this delightful countryside. A Christmas party was
held to celebrate the centenary. A full house was present. The Senior
citizens party and the children’s party took place. Most of these
senior citizens went to school here in this building.
They were interviewed and they related stories about their time in
school and the teachers there at that time. Also a story related by
one of the senior citizens about the first train that came into
Listowel one year after this school opening. Also 1985, 1987 and 2001
old folk’s party.
This film will be screened in Clounmacon Community Centre on Friday
17th October, at 8 o’c. Film is 2 hours long. Refreshments will be
served. A fundraiser for the centre. Finucane Films Moyvane. Adm. €10
HALLOWEEN: Samhain Chiarraí – A Kerry Halloween runs from 16th October
to the 9th of November 2025, programme includes three new Samhain
experiences in Tralee, Killarney & Listowel.
Visit www.discoverkerry.com/SamhainC
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AN TOBAR NUA COUNSELLING We provide confidential counselling
nationwide via telephone and Zoom. Our service is donation-based,
because we do not want finances to prevent anyone from receiving
support. If you, are struggling with grief, anxiety, depression, or
other life challenges, please know that we are here to help. Phone:
091 562 175 Email: [email protected]
WRITERS: Interested in joining a Creative Writers Group in Listowel
Library? The “Write Liners” Group will meet on Tuesdays 10.30am- 12pm
every fortnight in Listowel Library. Next meeting, Tuesday 14 October.
CONCERT Glórach, Abbeyfeale on Friday, October 24th the Lost Souls .
The local folk legends are always a big draw, book at at
www.glorachabbeyfeale.ie or at 0871383940, and on Saturday November
1st the songs of Percy French will be celebrated with a special
concert featuring Ultan Conlon, Eleanor Shanley and Jimmy Higgins,
concerts commence at 8 pm.
AGM of Athea branch of Comhaltas will take place at Batt’s Bar, Athea
on Thursday, October 18th at 8.30 pm. The branch has been in existence
since 1973. For more info contact 087 752 7127.
OUTREACH CLINIC IN LISTOWEL: Thursday 16th September 12am – 3pm at
Listowel family resource centre, John B Keane rd., Listowel. This is a
free and confidential support service on all aspects of deafness and
hearing loss. Information and resources, assistive technologies, minor
hearing aid repairs, and hearing aid batteries for sale for €3 a card.
Call or text Lorraine on 086-0105200 to make an appointment.
MEDITATION SESSIONS on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm in the Family
Resource Centre, Listowel. Spaces still available. Contact Grainne at
0879762862.
LIMOUSIN: Roundhill Limousin heifer sale
Agriland caught up with Doreen Corridan ahead of the online sale to
hear the backstory to the sale of 20 maiden heifers. She explained
that the focus of the herd is different to most Limousin breeders in
that the herd genetics has embarked down the polled Limousin route
approximately a decade ago.
She said: “I’d be the only breeder in Ireland really breeding polled
Limousins. It’s very rare. If you take across Europe, the majority of
the Limousins Limousins in Germany are polled and most French breeders
are using polled genetics.
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IFA Environment Chair John Murphy has expressed concern at the
findings of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest report
on urban wastewater treatment, which highlights serious ongoing
operational and maintenance issues at Uisce Éireann wastewater
treatment plants.
CARBON: The average person today produces 11 times more carbon
emissions than someone in 1961. From driving gas-powered cars and
running air conditioning to eating red meat and wasting electricity,
nearly everything we do leaves a carbon footprint.
https://greencitizen.com/blog/
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NEW ACTIVITY CLASS Over 55s “Balance for Living” Activity Class at
Listowel Community Centre – Monday 1:00-1:45pm. Improve balance and
stability, prevent falls with everyday movement and stay steady and
confident. Empower your movement and enhance your life. We look
forward to welcoming you! Contact us at 068 22244 or
[email protected]
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TINY Homes: One study of tiny homes in Australia–which has the
second-largest houses in the world after the US–found that tiny homes
can reduce per-person carbon emissions by 70 percent over its lifespan
compared to a traditional home. For a traditional home to achieve
lower per-person emissions than a tiny house, at least 10 people would
need to live there
https://ideas.ted.com/impact-o
BOOK: Marc Ó Sé launched recently his memoir, “Ó Sé: A Kerry Family. A
Football Dynasty.”
CLASS: St Michaels College Class of 75.
Sorry to hear that 10 of you have passed
https://youtu.be/vj4YIDlRjCQ?s
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CLASS of 1977 Presentation Reunion Lunch’ will be held at Listowel
Arms Hotel on Saturday, October 18. Brenda O’Halloran, a member of the
class of 1977, is on the organising committee, with Anne McAuliffe,
Margaret Doyle and Kay Healy.
OPEN Day; Coláiste Íde Dingle Open Day 18th Oct. 10am-4pm. More info.
066 915 1211.
TARBERT BRIDEWELL – are hosting a coffee morning in aid of the Kerry
Hospice on the 17th October. Donations would be gratefully
appreciated.
CÉILÍ will be held in the Dúchas Centre Tralee on Sunday October 19,
from 3-6pm. Music by Taylor’s Cross.
Patrick O Keefe Traditional Festival Castleisland 23rd to 27th October.
TALK at Killarney House on Secret Lives of Owls in Ireland at 8pm on
16th of October.
MENS Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing Evening on 6th November,
6:30 – 9pm, Longcourt House Hotel, NCW.
RAMBLING HOUSE; Listowel on last Thursday of the month and Knockanure
on the first Thursday of the month. Clounmacon on the second Friday;
Ita’s Rambling House at the Desmond Complex is on the 3rd. Friday each
month. Knocalucka is on the 3rd. Tuesday of the month. Josie’s
Brosna 2nd Thursday of the month. Ballyhahill 3rd Wednesday in the
Community Centre. John Barrett’s Bar, Glin 4th Tuesday. Tarbert last
Saturday of the month at the Community Centre.
IRISH RAMBLING HOUSE SHOWS Tour 2025, organised by Joe Harrington and
Kay O’Leary from Lyreacrompane are holding four shows in Warrington,
Nottingham and Harrow London on Thursday October 23, Friday October
24, Saturday October 25, and Sunday October 26th, inquiries to Jacqui
078 073 7568, Paul 079 7425 9471, Patrick on 073 1203 2905.
WRITER: Kerry Writer in Residence Emer Fallon is available to provide
workshops to groups and to provide one-to-one mentoring to anyone
setting out on their writing journey. If interested in working with
Emer, email
[email protected] (mailto:emerwriterinres@gmail.
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NEW MOON on the 21st. Some cattle which were housed are out again,
many are hoping for dried weather to finish harvesting.
NOBEL: this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner is Venezuelan democracy
campaigner María Corina Machado, She was barred from running in last
year’s presidential elections.
GOOD FOOD Ireland Awards taking place on Monday, November 10, at Host
Partner venue The K Club in County Kildare, eleven Kerry businesses
have been named as finalists.
CITIZEN’S information office recently celebrated 50 years serving the people.
State to provide €9m for Ryder Cup preparations; Government will give
€1.4 billion to Uisce Éireann; €3.5 billion will be allocated to ESB
and EirGrid.
No public investigation on how the money is spent.
CHURCH: The destruction of All Saints adds to more than 120 church
burnings and acts of vandalism against Christian churches across
Canada since 2021.
ATTACK on pig farm; Russian forces have reportedly carried out another
attack on a Ukraine farm, this time killing over 13,000 pigs during an
overnight barrage. There seems to be a pattern whereby Russia attacks
significant sources of food in Ukraine, including large farms and food
processors. ———
The cost of the damage is estimated to exceed US$7.5 million.
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FILM Festival in Killarney 16th to 19th October.
ENGLAND: Office for National Statistics says that government borrowing
had been overstated by a cumulative £3bn due to mistakes in public
finances data.
Canada, news reports say, debt-interest costs now exceed $1 billion a week.
ANGER: The reality of anger is more complicated. Anger is, in fact, a
neutral emotion. Yes, it can make you snap at your kids or rage at a
reckless driver. But it can also be a beneficial energy that helps you
defend your boundaries, clarify your needs, and move forward on your
goals.
https://www.artofmanliness.com
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BUSHWICK — For more than six decades, Msgr. James Kelly’s law office
on Wyckoff Avenue has handled standing-room-only crowds of clients
seeking U.S. citizenship. So, it is not surprising that in the days
following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, this 87-year-old
diocesan priest from Limerick, Ireland, has become an interview “get”
for multiple news outlets. Just look at his appointment calendar. A
Feb. 19 interview with The Tablet followed reports by Currents News,
EWTN, and the New York Times. An interview with another newspaper was
set for Feb. 20. Journalists want to know Msgr. Kelly’s take on Trump
2.0’s immigration plans, but he doesn’t have much to tell them — at
least not yet.
https://thetablet.org/district
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OYSTER: 1938 19th February (IT).
Shannon Fisheries Control: – —- The Oyster Fisheries:
The Electricity Supply Board has come to the conclusion that it would
be desirable to revive, if possible, the oyster fisheries. There were
extensive areas in both the Shannon and the deep water of its estuary,
which were suitable for the development of oyster fisheries. In former
years certain beds had been worked by private enterprise but they had
been now abandoned. The beds extended from Foynes westward to
Carrigaholt Bay, but the beds most successful worked centred round
Kilrush Harbour. (In Poulnasherry Bay). The Board were of the opinion
that the development of the oyster fisheries would prove not only
remunerative, but would give constant employment to a number of
skilled fishermen who were at present unemployed. ———.
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1915 28th July (IT).
Trips on the Shannon.
A series of most enjoyable trips can be made on the Shannon, with
Limerick as headquarters. The sail down the Shannon from Limerick to
the Atlantic is one of the most delightful imaginable, and is in many
respects superior to the much-famed Rhine. Though there are not the
same number of castellated mansions to be seen on the Shannon as on
the Rhine, there is a far greater volume of water and the scenery is a
great deal more varied and pleasing. The Limerick Steamship Company
run a holiday steamer from Limerick to Cappagh, at the mouth of
Kilrush Bay. The vessel is Belfast built, and moves rapidly, with an
easy motion. There is plenty of seating accommodation on the upper
deck, from which unimpeded views can be had of the rarest bits of
scenery in the Counties of Clare, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary with
the Kerry and Knockmealdown Mountains forming an agreeable and
inspiring background. The Shannon at stages is several miles wide, and
all along the shores are beautiful country residences and well-wooded
demesnes.
https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eo
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Sat, 15 Feb, 2020 – Irish Examiner
Faction fighting in Ireland lasted from the start of the 18th century
to the end of the 19th, yet has received little attention from
historians.
Faction Fights
Similarly, in the mid-1600s, the O’Briens, lords of Co. Clare, who
owned the lordship of Tarbert, settled many Clare families in North
Kerry, including the Mulvihills; this created resentment among several
local families, and ‘led to many bloody fights’.
The Cooleen faction mostly comprised ‘representatives of old Kerry
families’, chiefly the Flahertys, as well as the Ahernes, the Bání
O’Connors and the Sheehys. Another account also numbered the
Houlihans, the O’Callaghans and the Roches in their ranks.
On the other side, the Lawlors and Black Mulvihills were supported by
the Walshs, the Keanes, the O’Briens, the Sullivans and the Enrights.
The Cooleens and the Lawlors often met at Listowel.
Indeed both groups were characterised in 1826 as ‘Listowel factions’.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/
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POOR RELIEF: Peter Robinson Scheme to Canada
In 1823, as a form of poor relief, the Imperial government began a
program to assist individuals from southern Ireland to emigrate to
Canada. The settlement of these emigrants was entrusted to the civil
administration of Upper Canada and Peter Robinson, the brother of the
Attorney General of Upper Canada, was placed in charge of organising
and supervising the undertaking. The first group of emigrants,
arriving in 1823
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Title: Domesday books
Date of Creation: 1801-1982- Physical Description:
180 volumes of textual records
Scope and Content:
Series consists of original volumes, known as Domesday Books, which
contain schedules of land grants. As well the series contains
transcriptions made from the Domesday Books.
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SOLAR: The MREF has also welcomed the acknowledgement by Minister
Donohoe of what it said is the growing importance of Solar PV systems
in the green energy landscape, by noting that there are now 140,000
homes with Solar PV systems installed.
MREF also welcomed the extension of Accelerated Capital Allowances
schemes for energy efficiency equipment for a further five years until
the 31st of December 2030.
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