Knockanure Notes – 13th April, 2008

The Social Day at Knockanure Community Centre for the Actively Retired including meal will be held on Monday 14th April.

LOTTO: Knockanure GAA Lotto results for 11th April `08, No Winner of Jackpot of E7,000. Numbers Drawn 1-2-19 and 20.
Lucky Dips went to Ned Gould, Kilmorna; Henry Finucane, Lisaniskea; Richard Horgan ,Kilmeaney, Kilmorna; Patsy Meehan, Kilmorna; Maureen Connolly Trien Kilmorna; Mick McElligott, Lisaniskea; Bar Prize Micheal O Connor;
Next weeks Jackpot E7,100.

ICA: Moyvane ICA offer Sincere thanks to everybody who helped to sell daffodils recently in support of the Irish Cancer Society. The proceeds amounted to E1,620, ICA meeting is on Tuesday 15th April at 8.30pm. The next knitting evening takes place on Tuesday 29th April at 8.30pm, everybody welcome.

KDYS are holding Photography lessons at KDYS Youth Centre, Upper Church St., Listowel. Starting Friday 18th April at 6pm. Open to Teenagers from: 13 – 18 year olds. Cost E30 for 6 Classes. For further information, contact 068 23744.

KDYS are now enrolling for their Summer Camps for all 10 – 13 year olds. The week long camps will take place during July in Moyvane, Listowel and Lixnaw. The cost per person for each camp is E75. To enrol please contact KDYS Listowel, Upper Church St., Listowel at 068 23744.

REPS plans must be in before May 15th `08 according to the Minister for Agriculture, as plans will have to be rushed it will but extra stress on busy farmers at this time of year.

WATER Quality hype recently by the EPA is only a method of justifying their existence, most illness and deaths in the younger age group is from self harm and accidents while overindulgence is the cause health problems in the older age group. A recent survey done on children from Finland and Russia found that children living in poor unhygienic conditions were less likely to have celiac disease.

HEALTH: Mental Health Recovery Conference will be held at Charleville Park Hotel on April 18th `08, it will be chaired by Vincent Browne, details from [email protected]

HELPLINE 1800 742 745 is open daily from 6pm – 10pm ,People can ring the number and talk, in complete confidence, to someone who will listen and offer help and support.

POETRY: Dan Keane Poetry Competition in association with Writers Week and the Kerryman is open to all National School students; please send entries to Dan Keane at Coilagurteen, Moyvane, Co Kerry before April 25th `08.

BEST Wishes to Ann Marie McEvoy of Aughrim, Moyvane who celebrated her 21st birthday recently. Ann Maria is daughter of Denis and Noreen McEvoy.

Best Wishes to Brian Cowen, the Carey family in Listowel are his relations.

MEAL: Taste of Kerry meal will be held at IT Tralee on April 24th , profits going to local charities, details from 066 7191820.

TURF cutting is decreasing year by year, probably by the next generation only a few hardy fellows will continue a tradition which has lasted thousands of years, now the few who still want to cut turf in Moanveanlagh will be forced to stop to comply with new Environmental Directives. As sure as night follows day the EU will one day give grants to small scale turf cutters when they see their environmental benefit. In 1981 plans were in place to cut £0.25 million worth of turf per year in bogs at Tullamore and Graffa and no naturalist complained.

PROTEST is being organised for opponents of the present direction of the WTO negations in Dublin on Thursday April 17th, leaving Abbeyfeale at 7.30am. To book a seat contact Seamus Lane, Abbeyfeale IFA Chairman 087/2525329

WALK: Annual famine walk from Doolough to Louisburgh, Co. Mayo will be held on Saturday 17th May `08, beginning at 2pm. Read more at www.afri.ie

TINTEAN: Troubled Bachelors will be performed on April 11th and 13th; Beauty and the Geek will be staged by the Tintean Theatre School students on April 19th at 8pm and on the 20th April at 2.30pm, details from 068 28003.

ST JOHN’S: Thursday 17th The Best of Traditional with Niamh ni Charra and Mike Galvin; Tuesday 22nd film set in India in 1930’s , showing plight of widows who were forced into poverty; Friday 25th Stride and the Diva in Concert and on Saturday 22nd Beckett’s Outburst, the funny side of Beckett, details from 068 22566.

GLORACH Theatre is expected to stage a play on the 24th an 25th of April.

LIBRARY: Mobile Library visits Moyvane at 10am on Wednesday 23rd of April; it calls to Tarbert on same day at 11.15am and Ballylongford 12.15 pm.

PILGRIMAGE to Lourdes with Bishop Murphy takes place in September, details from 064 58219.

KNOCK: A night vigil to Knock will take place on Friday 2nd May. Details from Peg Murphy at 068/31232.

Lough Derg Pilgrimage begins on May 31st, details from 068 31232, Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm.

Day of Prayer and Intercession will be held at the Church of the Resurrection, Killarney on Saturday 19th April starting at 10am.

Afternoon of prayer will be held at Scartaglen Church on April 20th at 2.45pm, all are welcome.

Vocations year was launched by Bishop Murphy at the Cathedral in Killarney on April 12th last.

THOUGHT: At the requiem mass for Fr William F Buckley which was held at St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on April 4th `08, Fr. Rutler said Fr Buckley’s life testified that there can be no concord with evil, for evil always seeks to devour the good, and peace at any price is expensive.

EVENTS: Listowel Bridge Club will have a charity night on Thursday April 17th starting at 7.30pm; Talk on God will be given by Megan McKenna a spiritual writer at the Malton Hotel, Killarney at 8pm on Thursday April 17th , all are welcome; Ardfert Retreat Centre will have an evening for those touched by cancer on Wednesday April 16th at 8pm, details from 066 7134 276; Fr Pat Moore will give a talk on the environment at the John Paul 11 Pastoral Centre in Killarney on April 17th starting at 8pm; Sult na nOg will be held at IT Tralee on the 18th and 19th of April; Car boot Sale will be held in Newcastle West on Sunday April 20th; Eigse Michael Hartnett will be held in Newcastle West from April 24th to 26th, details from 061 496 300; Recording of Ceili House will be made at Templeglantine on Saturday April 19th , starting at 7pm; Passover is celebrated from 20th to 27th of April, unleavened bread is used during this week; Turn off TV Week begins on April 21st; Earth Day April 22nd; International Day of Smell April 26th; Kerry Bicycle festival will be held in Tralee from 17th to 20th April, Festival Film night will be held Friday April 18th ; Punchestown begins on April 22nd; Seminar on employment law will be held at the Arms Hotel on Wednesday 26th April starting at 12.30pm; Ballybunion Point to point will be held on April 27th; Sharon Shannon will play at the Convent Hall in Abbeyfeale on May 4th `08; Belfast Marathon is on May 5th `08; Mini Marathon will be held on June 2nd , if you want to run for the Multiple Sclerosis Society contact 1850 650 950; Toastmasters will meet at the Desmond Complex on Wednesday night April 16th ; Car boot sale in Newcastlewest on Sunday April 20th; Engineers Conference will be held at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Limerick on April 17th and 18th;

GUARDS: 600 guards are in the Limerick Division and a fifth of their resources are taken up in feud control.

FULL Moon on April 20th, on April 15th Saturn watches will be held in several locations around the country, it can be seen just above the moon at 9pm; the weather in April is very disappointing for livestock owners, but people selling fodder have a mini boom;

SWANS: Tadhg Kennelly of Listowel will continue playing with the Swans till 2009.

WALKING: The Annual Cuckoo Walking Festival will be held as usual on the May Bank Holiday week-end in Tarbert. The festival launch will take place in the Bridewell on Friday 2nd May 2008 at 8.30 pm. A full programme of walks have been organised for the week-end with the usual conviviality at the end of the day. The entire programme can be accessed by visiting our website at www.cuckoowalking.com. Walking is one of the easiest, most enjoyable, and most relaxing forms of exercise so come along and join with us to experience some spectacular views of the Shannon Estuary and of course to hear the cuckoo.

LNG Annual Community Contribution, which will be administered by the planning authority in conjunction with the Community Liaison Committee, for the benefit of the local community. The amount specified was E200,000 per annum. The first payment must be made prior to the commencement of the development. The Community Liaison Committee will include two elected members and two officers of Kerry County Council, three members of the local community (Ballylongford, Kilcolgan and Tarbert) and two representatives of the developer. Shannon LNG will not be making any funds directly available to local organisations, funding will be administered by the liaison committee which should be in place within the next year. NOTES for the Kerryman which were compiled by the late Mike Hanrahan from the end of 1981 to the present give us an insight into the activities of the various organisations, social functions, marriages and deaths in the Parish over the years. Mike saw the need for the Note as every other parish in the district had their activities published and he was prepared to fill the breech; Snippets from around the district from September notes in the Kerryman include Winners of the presentation Secondary School Association Draw were Mrs Joan Hilliard, Mrs Kathleen Walsh and Ann Prendeville who won £500; Duagh nurse Deborah Scanlon visits the U.S.A. Water supply low due to the recent dry spell; Sunday masses in Ballybunion from September 6th , 8.30am, 10am, 11.30am and 7.30pm; October News; Leo Finucane packs halls with his latest film the Colleen Bawn, he also made a film of the 1981 All Ireland Fleadh and has entered his films in the Dublin Film Festival; Library Headquarters is on the move; Pioneer walk from Listowel to Moyvane for the handicapped on Sunday 11th October also a walk will be held in Castleisland; Nora Trant celebrates 100 years; Jimmy Deenihan captain of Kerry team displays the outfit presented to the team by Denis Moran, all garments Irish Made; Tullamore and Graffa bog in two years will be producing £.0.25 million worth of turf, estimated 60 years supply of first cutting in the bogs; Death of Col. Niall Harrington son of Tim Harrington M.P. his uncle Dan Harrington published the Kerry Sentinel; Pier in Tarbert in danger of being swept away; Canon Jack O Connor of Ballylongford died was P.P of Hove; Water Scheme for Abbeyfeale to cost £1 million; Siamsa Group in Dublin; Drug trials in Killarney Hospital, 50 involved; Con Casey former editor of the Kerryman recalls his memories of Tralee Courthouse, he had a valuable document in his hand and had the ability to save it and regretted later that he did not take action. Next week hope to bring snippets of the Moyvane Notes for 1982.

DEATH took place on April 4th `08 at Raheny, Dublin of Bess Daly nee Clancy daughter of Con Clancy and Jeanie Casey of Knockanure Village. Bess was married to Michael Daly and is survived by sons Michael and Tom; she was predeceased by siblings Jerry, Maurice, Neilus and Rita.

Death has taken place on April 7th `08 of Jer Mulvihill of Glennalappa, Moyvane; he was born in 1915 to Pat Mulvihill and Nora Sheehy. Jer was predeceased by his wife Catherine Connolly and is survived by sons Pat and Jeremiah and daughter Nora, sister Mai and brother Con in England. His siblings Mike, Jim, Martin, and Pat predeceased him. Following Requiem Mass in Moyvane Church on Wednesday April 9th `08 celebrated by Fr John Lucid assisted by Fr Liam Lovell, Jer Mulvihill was laid to rest among generations of his ancestors at Murhur Churchyard on a lovely cool spring afternoon. Hymns in the Church were sung by Stephen Donegan. Jer was also fond of music, when his mother died, he was aged 13 years from then on he ran the house for his father and siblings, including making bread from an early age.

Death took place on April 7th `08 of Francis Woulfe nee Clarke of the Horeshoe Bar Listowel and the Marine Hotel Ballybunion, following requiem mass in Listowel Church Francis Woulfe was laid to rest at St Michael’s Churchyard, Listowel on April 11th `08.

ANNIVERSARIES: Sr. Paul Bunce, Jerry O Driscoll, Peter Carmody, Teresa Dunne, Peg McEnery, Michael Cunningham, Margaret Sheehy, Fr Tom Moloney, Dawn Murphy, Madge Horgan, Tom Walsh, Aero Lyons, Tim Flaherty, Ellen Stack, Mairead McGrath, Paddy Flavin, John McCabe, Br. William Shine, Madge Heaney, Dan Keane, Mass on Tues. 15th 8.00pm for Bridget Shiel; Wed. 16th 9.15am Paddy & Hanna Scanlon; Thurs. 17th 8.00pm Kitty Shine, Months Mind; Sat. 19th 8.00pm John Shanahan; Sun. 20th 10.00am in Knockanure for Laurence Collins and 11.00am in Moyvane for Daniel & Catherine Keane, Clounprohus.

STATIONS: for Murhur, Moyvane & Claar at the home of Eileen Collins on Saturday 26th April at 10.00am. Fri. 18th ; Stations for Upper Aughrim & Glenalappa East at the home of Denis & Noreen Mc Evoy at 7.30pm .

RETREAT: Youth Retreat (ages 16 – 35) will take place at St Brendan’s College, Killarney from Friday – Sunday, April 25th – 27th. Theme ‘Go, be my witnesses’. Phone Eamon on 086 9972539. Details: www.youth2000.ie.

READERS: Vigil Moyvane Seline Mulvihill & Bridget McCarthy; 11.00am Ciara Healy & Amanda Coulson; Knockanure 10.00am Kathy Kennelly and Mary Fitzgerald. ADORATION: In Moyvane on Sundays 4 to 5pm, Wednesdays from 10am to 7pm, Knockanure 10am to 6pm on Tuesdays and Abbeyfeale Monday to Friday 6pm to 8pm.


Community Bulletin

THANK YOU for returning your Trocaire Boxes and your CHY2 Certs.

Knockanure Community Centre The Social Day for the Actively Retired including meal will be held on Monday 14th April.

Day of Prayer and Intercession for the Diocese of Kerry

“Go Out. Proclaim The Good News.”

Speakers: Fr. Damien Ryan, Chaplain to the National Service Committee

Marie Beirne, Chairperson to the National Service Committee. Venue: Church of the Resurrection, Park Road, Killarney, on the 19th April, starting at 10am. Day to include prayer and praise, testimonies, teachings, Eucharistic Adoration & Reconciliation, Rosary, healing prayer ministry and Mass. Tea and coffee served. Please bring a packed lunch. All are welcome. For further information contact Grace 066-7125462, Mary 087 9230160


The Diocese of Kerry will host a public talk by Megan McKenna, an internationally acclaimed spiritual writer and speaker, entitled Linking our story with God’s Story on Thursday April 17th at 8.00pm in The Muckross Suite, The Malton Hotel, Killarney. All are welcome.


Moyvane I.C. A. Sincere thanks to everybody who helped to sell daffodils recently in support of the Irish Cancer Society. The proceeds amounted to ?1,620.

The next I.C.A. meeting is on Tuesday 15th April at 8.30pm.

The next knitting evening takes place on Tuesday 29th April at 8.30pm. Everybody welcome.


KDYS Listowel are holding Photography lessons at KDYS Youth Centre, Upper Church St., Listowel. Starting Friday 18th April at 6pm. Open to Teenagers from: 13 – 18 year olds. Cost ?30 for 6 Classes. For further information, contact 068 23744.

KDYS Listowel are now enrolling for their Summer Camps for all 10 – 13 year olds. The week long camps will take place during July in Moyvane, Listowel and Lixnaw. The cost per person for each camp is ?75. To enrol please contact KDYS Listowel, Upper Church St., Listowel at 068 23744.

Kerry Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes, by the Bishop Bill Murphy from September 2nd – 7th. Flights Ex Kerry Airport. 5 Nights Hotel Accommodation in Lourdes. Basic Cost ?740.00. Contact Mrs. Janice O’Sullivan, “Droum”, Nohoval Upper, Rathmore, C. Kerry or Fr. Bill Radley, P.P., Pilgrimage Director, Headford, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Special Pilgrimage No’s Tel. 064 58219.

Please pray for Jer Mulvihill, RIP, who died during the week and for Bess Daly

(nee Clancy) RIP, Raheny, Dublin and late of Knockanure, who died on 4th April.

And for the following whose anniversaries occur and for whom Holy Mass will be offered as follows:-

Sat. 12th 8.00pm Dawn Murphy

Sun. 13th 10.00am Nora Kelly nee Kennelly, Nenagh

Mon. 14th No Mass in Moyvane

Tues. 15th 8.00pm Bridget Shiel

Wed. 16th 9.15am Paddy & Hanna Scanlon

Thurs. 17th 8.00pm Kitty Shine, Months Mind

Fri. 18th Stations for Upper Aughrim & Glenalappa East at the home of Denis & Noreen Mc Evoy at 7.30pm .

Sat. 19th 8.00pm John Shanahan

Sun. 20th 10.00am Laurence Collins

11.00am Daniel & Catherine Keane, Clounprohus

Stations for Murhur, Moyvane & Claar at the home of Eileen Collins on Saturday 26th April at 10.00am.

Confessions:- Sat. 12.00-12.30 and on request any time.

Adoration Moyvane Sun. 4.00pm 5.00pm

Wed. 10.00am 7.00pm

Knockanure Tues. 10.00am 6.00pm

Readers:- Vigil Seline Mulvihill & Bridget McCarthy

11.00am Ciara Healy & Amanda Coulson

Knockanure 10.00am Kathy Kennelly & Mary Fitzgerald

Collections:- Moyvane ?1,119.30 Knockanure ?404.40

Fr. John Lucid 068 49308 / 087 9283336