Knockanure Notes – 14th September, 2008

BEST Wishes to Knockanure Tidy Town Group who won the Kerry endeavour award this year, well done to Moyvane who received 246 marks, Sneem was the only village in their category in Kerry to beat them. Listowel got Gold Medal for their achievements in the Tidy Town Competition.
ST PIO Prayer Group will meet in Listowel Church on Thursday 25th of Sept, at 7.15pm, all are welcome.
CLASSES: Computer Classes will commence at Knockanure Community Centre on Monday 22nd September at 7pm for eight weeks. Computer Classes for Farmers will commence at Knockanure Community Centre on Tuesday 23rd September at 7pm for six weeks. Style Coaching/Fashion Design Classes will commence on Thursday 25th September from 7.00pm. Anyone interested, please contact Patricia at the Community Centre on 086 8392787. Knockanure Development Association wish to thank everyone who supported our recent fundraising draw for Knockanure Community Centre. A special word of thanks to the sponsors of our prizes.
DANCE will take place at Knockanure Community Centre on Friday 3rd October @ 9pm. Music by Stevie Donegan. Tickets ?7. All are welcome. Knockanure Community Centre would like to thank everyone who gave Cakes etc for their Sale, which was held in Vintage Day.
FAMILY Resource Centre in Listowel have activities during race week, details from 068 23584, they are also looking for volunteers.
NANO Nagle School Race Night will be held at the New Kingdom Bar at 9.30pm on Tuesday Sept. 16th.
RACING in Listowel will be special this year as they celebrate their 150th birthday, despite the wet weather hope things will be a success, locals and visitors will renew friendships and enjoy the occasion. Birds Amusements are in the Community Centre Car Park which is convenient to all.
SET Dancing with Timmy Woulfe is re-commencing at the Marian Hall on Monday 22nd September at 8pm for beginners and 8.30pm for all other dancers.
WATER Aerobatics Classes will be held in Ballybunion for 6 weeks, details from Jill McCarthy at 068 49489.
BLOOD Donor Clinic will be held at FR Casey’s GAA pavilion on Wednesday 17th and Thursday Sept 18th from 6pm to 9pm each evening.
HAPPY Birthday to Dan Keane, Dan was born on 17th September 1919.
PLOUGHING Match bus to Kilkenny, details from 068 31232.
North Kerry Together in Listowel, phone 06823429, also hope to run a bus to the championship which runs from Sept. 23rd to 25th, 15 from Kerry are competing.
LOCAL: Fr Nealie O Keeffe and his drama activities were recalled in last weeks Asdee Notes, Fr O Keeffee was a first generation Asdee man, his father came from this Parish and many of his relations are still active in local affairs.
SCHOOL: Tarbert Comprehensive School will close on Wednesday 17th , Thursday 18th and Friday 19th at 1pm , subject to the Listowel Races going ahead, Supervised Study subject to demand will begin at the school on Monday Sept. 29th from 4pm to 6pm, details from 068 36105.
Weight of school bags is of concern to all pupils; nothing is done because any change would need union and Department consent. How many children are damaged or leave school early due to the load they have to carry, while people who should know better stand idly by. Peruvian Proverb, “Only he, who carries it, knows how much the cross weighs”
JOBS: 1,000 construction workers have lost their jobs in Kerry so far this year, in Limerick 30 people per week loose their jobs since January `08. West Limerick 102 are looking for staff, details from 069 66200, email [email protected]
GROUPS: Gamblers Anonymous meet in Killarney on Fridays, details from 087 2549 879; Grow contact number is 021 4277 520; Autism Action meet on last Wednesday of the month at 8.30pm in the Abbey Gate Hotel, all are welcome; Council for the Blind information at 066 7122 223; Samaritans 1850 60 90 90.
Clothes collection in aid of Kenya will be held at the Car park beside the Church in Moyvane on Tuesday Sept. 23rd before noon, collections also on the day at Listowel Supervalue Car Park and Tarbert outside Primary School.
PILGRIMAGE to Medjugorje from Kerry is on October 3rd, details from 066 719 4821. Visionary Jakov Colo will be in Ireland from 15th to 20th of September he will visit Kilkenny Tuesday 16th, Wednesday 17th Knock, Thursday 18th ,Enniskillen, Friday 19th Ballymany, details from 01 289 7157. Details of a recent letter from the Bishop of Medjugorje http://www.cbismo.com/index.php?mod=3Dvijest&vijest=3D228
ARDFERT Retreat Centre Biodiversity as Revelation session with John Feehan will take place on Saturday, September 20th from 10am – 5pm. Booking 066 7134276. Talk by Thady O’Connor on spiritual approach to suicide prevention on Tuesday, September 23rd from 8pm to 10pm, more information from 066 7134276.
VIGIL to mark suicide prevention week will be held in Galway on Sept 18th from 8pm to 9pm, details of transport from 068 42291;
HEALING One day workshop with Fr. Jim Cogley Psychotherapist and Wood Turner on Healing the past, Living the present, facing the future, takes place on
Wed. Sept 24th from 10am to 4.30pm in Desmond Complex, Newcastlewest, Tel. Catherine Ambrose 064/77562. ARTHRITIS Ireland are holding a public information talk on Overcoming Depression and Stress Associated with Arthritis and Exercise as a Means of Overcoming Pain on September 16th at the Brandon Hotel, Tralee at 7.30pm, admission is free and all are welcome. Kerry Branch AGM will commence at 6.30pm on the same night, all are welcome. Mass in Honour of the Patron Saint for Arthritis, Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, will be held at the Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee on Sunday September 28th at 9.30am.
HOLIDAYS: Visions of cheap holidays for the trendy set who have a patio at home and an apartment in the sun is being dashed, now that more and more tour operators are biting the dust. Is the golden age of weekend foreign trips by the gas-guzzler over?.
EVENTS: Bridge Club meet at the Railway Bar in Abbeyfeale on every Thursday night; Bereavement Support Programme will be held at St Ita’s Hall Abbeyfeale , details from 068 31203; Walk at 4pm will be held in Abbeyfeale on Sunday Sept 21st in aid of the Fr Tim Galvin Fund; Tralee Gramophone Society begins its season in the Parish Centre Tralee on Tuesday, September 23rd at 7.30pm, All are welcome; Information evening on Arthritis will be held on Tuesday, September 16th at the Brandon Hotel at 7.30pm, all are welcome; Bus from Listowel to Ballybunion every Tuesday, book with 1890 528 528; The First Aid class will begin on Wednesday night September 17 in St. Ita’s Hall Abbeyfeale ;Toastmasters will meet at the Desmond Complex on Wednesday Sept 17th at 8.30pm, details from 087 2343227; Kerry County Council Arts, Heritage and Archaeologist officers will be available to the public at Listowel Council Office on 17th Sept, from 10am to noon, details from 066 7183 815; Vintage at Banna Ardfert on Sunday Sept. 21st; Entrepreneur Blue Sky Day will be held at the Brandon Hotel on Friday Sept. 26th, details from 066 719 1990; Afternoon of Prayer will be held at Scartaglen Church on Sept. 21st at 2.45pm; Day in honour of Padre Pio will be held at Knock on Sept. 21st, it is forty years since St Pio died, he received the stigmata on Sept 20th 1918; Bus to Knock on Sunday, October 12th , more information from 066 7124519; The Legion of Mary in Abbeyfeale are organising a pilgrimage to Knock for Rosary Sunday October 5th, details from Peg at 068 31232. Cork Women’s Mini Marathon is on Sept. 28th; Information Evening on starting technology business will be held at Glasshouse Hotel Sligo on Tuesday Sept.23rd ,details from 071 9159724; London Kerry Association are looking for nominations for their Kerry Person of the Year, details from www.kerryassociationlondon.co.uk ; Kerry Hospice fundraising coffee morning will be held at the Mermaids at 10.30am on September 26th, details from 068 23210; Coffee Morning in aid of Milford Hospice will be held in Athea on Thursday 18th; Sept. 21st is International Day of Peace ; 22nd of Sept. Car Free Day; 26th Sept. National Volunteer Day; Positive Ageing Week begins September 26th ; Juvenile Badminton Registration for members for the 2008/2009 season will be held in the Community Centre Moyvane on Monday September 15th at 7.30pm; An enrichment weekend for married couples will take in the Lake Hotel from 7th to 9th November, Please contact Marriage Encounter at 064 44319 or 087 6670418; Great Southern Trail will have an organised event for Irelands first Trail Day on Sept. 28th `08; Kerry Motor Club will hold their Rally on November 9th; World Holstein Friesian Federation will meet at the Gleneagle Hotel from 9th to 11th of October `08;
ALL Ireland Final 64 page souvenir in this weeks Kerryman will be treasured in many houses for years to come. The local National School have a fine selection of Kerry posters on the windows and of coarse the flag will be flying in victory long after the match, big prices are being offered for any available ticket for the match.
COLIDER was supposed to end the world last week, they were only tinkering this time; experiments in the years to come will be a lot more dangerous. The CERN project has the support of 20 European Countries, researchers come from 80 nations, 1,200 are from America who pays $531 million into the fund. Costs rose 25% above the 1996 estimate.
EQUINOX: Autumnal Equinox and the last quarter of the moon are on September 22nd. The weather is being compared to 1947 when cut hay was lifted off the ground by the after grass, twenty years ago old people recalled bad weather in the 1920s, when turf could not be saved. Plentiful supply of black berries, as they ripen they start to rot this year.
JOURNALS which are published around Christmas will shortly be looking for photos and articles on local interest.
ST JOHN’S: Tuesday 16th at 7pm The Legend of Lowry Lynch , a puppet show and on Tuesday 23rd The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a French film; Wednesday 24th The Best of Traditional with Tony McMahon and Angelina Carberry; Thursday 25th An Evening of Humorous Yarns and Verse with Trad Concertina; Exhibition for Sept. All about Horses, details from 068 22566.
SIAMSA: For Sept. Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday San am Fado; Every Thursday and Saturday Tearmann, details from 066 7123 055.
YOUTH Caf=E9 in Listowel open on Thursday and Friday from 7pm to 9pm.
BOOK: Teagasc have published on the development of agriculture over the past 50 years, it is called Growing Knowledge and is available from 059 9183 409.
CONGRATULATIONS to David Goulding on recently winning the All Ireland Aberdeen Angus Junior Stockperson 2008, both his parents are from the Parish.
M.E.P. Kathy Sinnot is complaining why we did not take more money from the EU for forestry, she knows well that the Brussels officials will create more red tape in return for a paltry sum of money, we and herself voted no to hinder the EU imposing more foolish laws on us.
WASTE: Rubber liquid from 10,500 waste tires will be used to surface streets in Suisun City, California at a cost $1.2 million. For every kilowatt of electricity used for heating or lighting it takes 2.7 kilowatts of energy to generate it.
Brighter and cheaper LED lighting is being experimented with in Tralee, we all know that most of the light from street lamps only lights the sky rather than the street, now they are putting in new lights to replace lights only recently erected.
THOUGHT: Every once in a while let’s ask ourselves if our actions are motivated by love, if they are our life won’t be wasted, Chiara Lubich; What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbour. For it is our own neighbour who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not, Martin Luther; Holding onto power is much like trying to secure a handful of sand the tighter you squeeze the less you can have.
KERRYMAN September 12th 1908 reports; £145 was demanded in Ballyduff for the site of a labourers cottage, Ireland sells to Russia lace, linen, poplin, wool, tweeds, whiskey, porter and biscuits; New association founded Cumann na Mac Leighinn on August 23rd 1908 it will have a committee of eight, two per travelling teachers of Irish, two National Teachers, two university students and two representing interests of college graduates; Night watchman Gorman gave Tralee Urban Council report into break-in at Watson’s Creamery; Mr O Keeffe was complaining that Tralee was stigmatised by having the highest death rate which was misleading; Kerry County Board meeting was chaired by A Stack, a resolution was passed defending Mr Stack against recent attacks, among the clubs affiliated were Newtownsandes F.C.; Listowel court , names mentioned include O Dell, Cotter, McElligott, McCarthy, O Donoghue, Galvin, Cronin, Rice, Hayes and Connor, Outrage in Listowel three men charger in relation to attack on Martin Kennelly of Dromin; Listowel Urban Council report, Mr Leonard had houses in Church Street causing concern, Forge Lane had a sewer and none of the houses were connected, the medical office would charge half a crown to notify the existence of disease in an area, Tender for 80 tons of coal from Latchfords @ 23s per ton, the cost up to the present time was 29 shillings per ton, John Cahill was rate collector, John Daly was lamp lighter in Listowel, there was a discussion about the new lamp outside the premises John J Galvin in William Street; A long song called Scenes of my Boyhood written by William Long formally of Ballyaglish. Kerryman September 19th 1908 snippets; Listowel Race Committee considered tenders for the bridge to the Island Course, the tenders were James Cotter would provide the labour and the committee would provide the materials £14, Michael O Connor (Batt)? of Convent Street would do a complete job for £25 and J Hannon’s price was 29. Tenders to erect grand stand M. O Connor £35, J. Hannon £50 and M. O Sullivan £45. Racing in Castleisland Sept. 15th and 16th; Butter prices, inclement weather reducing supply, after grass much below average. Irish Creameries 112s to 115s, Danish choicest 118s to 121s and Siberian Butter 96s to 111s;
CHERNOBYL fundraising Dog Night in association with WL102fm on Saturday, November 15 at the Greyhound Track in Tralee. All monies raised will be divided equally between the Chernobyl Children’s Fund and WL102. The Abbeyfeale Chernobyl Children’s Fund intend to use their share of the monies raised to build a House of Hope in Chernobyl.
TB: International Congress on TB was held from Sept. 21st to Oct. 12th 1908, Irish death rate from TB was 213 and the New York rate was 234 per 100,000.
DEATH took place on September 5th `08 of Marie Walsh nee Creed of Aughrim Moyvane, following Requiem Mass in Moyvane Church on Sunday September 7th , Marie Walsh was laid to rest at Ahavoher Graveyard, Marie was born at Beale Hill, Ballybunion.
Deaths; Catherine Barry nee Pelican of Dirha Cottages, John Brendan Costelloe of Coolaclarig and New York, Bill Bates of Duagh and Chicago, John Joy of Lisselton and Michael Kelly of Dromerin.
ANNIVERSARIES: Pat Kennelly, Catherine Courtney, Kitty Denihan, Nora Galvin, Eamon Riordan, Bridie Moloney, Sr. Annunciata Curtin, Geraldine Daly, Ned Moran, Elizabeth Kelliher, Hugh Goulding, Tim Flaherty, Joe Moloney, Mai McMahon, Sr. Johanna Leahy, Fr Denis O Sullivan OMI, James Dower, Sr. Agatha Stack, Pat Scanlon, Tom Kennelly, Kevin O Donovan, Bridget O Connor, Tues. 16th 8.00pm Mass for Bernard Shiel; Thurs. 18th 8.00pm Mass for Nora & Michael Galvin & the deceased members of the Galvin Family, Barragogeen; Fri. 19th 8.00pm Mass for Nellie O’Connor, late of Glin Road; Sat. 20th 8.00pm Mass for Patrick Brosnan; Sun 21st 11.00am Mass for in Moyvane for William Hudson, Florida, who died recently.
A.G.M. of the Liturgy Group will be held in the Presbytery on Tuesday 23rd September at 8.30pm.
READERS: Vigil Una Fitzmaurice & Elaine Hudson; 11.00am Paul & Anthony Kiely; Knockanure 10.00am Brenda Clancy & Anne Stack.
FAITH: Diocese of Kerry will run a 6 week course, beginning on October 7th – November 11th in the Parish Centre Tralee from 8pm – 9.30pm. Each Tuesday night, different speakers will give a talk and discuss some of the questions, The speakers are from All Hallows College Dublin, Mary Immaculate College, and the dioceses of Kerry and Cork and Ross.. For further information or to book a place by September 30th, please contact Frances Rowland on 064 30538 or email [email protected] CALL: Trained call centre staff will provide a friendly telephone call Monday to Friday from 9am to 1pm. You pick the day(s) and the time that is convenient for you to receive the call, more information from 066 7147389.
ADORATION: Moyvane on Sunday from 4pm to 5pm , Wednesday 10am to 7pm and Knockanure on Tuesday 10am to 6pm. Study Theology at home, details from [email protected]
STATION: If you would like to have a Station Mass in your home, please contact the Presbytery.
Notes and history which are sometimes cut can be viewed in full on the Newtownsandes on line site or the Moyvane site.
LOTTO Results for 12th Sept. `08 Numbers drawn 3-7-20-27, Jackpot was E9, 200 no winner.
Lucky Dips went to the following; Con and Helen Brosnan, Mountcollins; Emma Smith, c/o Helen of Athea; Charlotte Patterson, c/o Jimmy Costello, Lisaniskea, Kilmorna; Eibhlis Hanrahan, Lisaniskea; Dave Murphy, c/o Ger Greaney; Mick Flavin, Bunagara, Listowel; Bar Prize Andrew Rogan.
Next Weeks Jackpot E9,300