COMMUNITY Centre Knockanure has
now acquired a Defibrillator. The committee is requesting
volunteers to train in the use of this life saving equipment. If
you are interested please contact Mary at the centre on 068
49799 between 9.30am and 1.00pm, Mon. to Fri. Physiotherapist
attends Knockanure Community Centre every Tuesday and Thursday,
details from 068 49799.
SOCIAL Day for the Active Retirement takes place in the
Knockanure Community Centre on Monday 8th November. Anybody
wishing to attend, please contact the secretary Mary at 068
49799 or 087 7528626 between 9.30 – 1.00 Monday to Friday.
AEROBICS & Body Conditioning Classes at Knockanure Community
Centre, continue on Wed. 3rd Nov. from 8 – 9pm. Exercise to
music classes, build your fitness and tone key areas at the same
time, Contact Maggie at 087 9866533.
FOOD Fair in Listowel continues to 7th of November, a large
programme is planned including Sheila Broderick Memorial
National Farmhouse Cheese Competition on Thursday Nov. 4th at
11.30am, sports day at the Listowel Community Centre on Nov. 5th
and Food and Craft Fair on Sunday Nov. 7th.
HEALTH: The North Kerry Primary Care Teams, in conjunction with
the Listowel Food Fair, are holding a Screening Morning, on
Fri., 5th Nov., from 10.00am to 1.00pm, in the Listowel Arms
Hotel. Free B.P. recording, random blood sugar levels and
lifestyle information, including mental wellbeing, will be on
offer. All welcome.
VISA: American Diversity Visa Lottery now open, 50,000 cards
available, closing Nov. 3rd 2010.
MUSIC: Kerry School of Music Scholarship, details from 66
7125690.
SINGING Weekend will be held at Abbeyfeale from Nov. 5th to 7th
2010, opening concert at Fr Casey Clubhouse on Friday Nov. 5th
among the performers is Gabriel Fitzmaurice, more from 087 205
5051.
BEST Wishes to Sandra daughter of Neilus Clancy and Margaret
Moore of Knockanure and Kieran son of Bobby Stack and Maria
Flaherty of Moyvane who got engaged last week.
BEST Wishes to Jim Woulfe of Ardagh and C.E.O. of Dairygold
Co-Operative was recently appointed by Minister Brendan Smith to
Dairy Expansion Activation Group to implement the expansion in
milk production.
Best Wishes also to Sheila and Danny Mulvihill of Lower
Dirreen who celebrated their “Golden Jubilee” recently and to
Connie O Sullivan, Lower Athea who has just celebrated his 80th
birthday.
NEW Moon on Nov. 6th. Recent heavy rain has forced many animals
indoors. Flocks of starlings recently arrived were delighted
with the ponds of water to wash themselves, the newly arrived
curlew is also calling. The International Space Station will
be passing over the country till Nov. 15th. Fireworks display
could be seen for miles around rising from a site just across
the border on Saturday night last.
EVENTS: Progressive 41 card drive will be held at Listowel
Emmet’s Clubhouse every Wed. at 9pm, 41 Card Drive at the Thatch
also every Wednesday night; Bingo in the Marian Hall every
Thursday night; Meeting of Fr. Jerry Roche committee will be
held on Wed. night Nov. 3rd at Margaret Carroll’s Rambling
House ; Aware Support Group meet on the first Wednesday of the
Month at the Meadowlands Hotel at 8pm, all are welcome; Science
Week 7th to 14th Nov.; Ceili will be held at Tournafulla on Fri.
Nov. 5th, starting at 9.30pm; Listowel Community Games Awards
Night at the Mermaids on Nov. 5th; North Kerry Scor na nOg
competition is on at Asdee on Nov. 6th at 7pm; IT Tralee open
day Fri. Nov. 12th;Kerry Film Festival continues till Nov. 6th,
Maureen O Hara aged 90 will be at Siamsa on Nov. 6th to make a
presentation; Killarney Library had a soap Box competition on
Wind Energy on Nov. 2nd at 7pm; Irish Language classes at St
Patrick’s Hall in Listowel begin on Nov. 9th , details from 068
43488; Knockdown Car Boot Sale on every 3rd Sunday of the month
starting on November 21st at 11 am, contact Jim at 087 2077043;
Kerry Motor Club Rally in Ballyduff area on Sun. Nov. 4th; Athea
Motor Cycle Club Fashion Show on Nov. 12th; Knockfierna Heritage
Society will hold a Rambling House, at the Hall, Athea on
Saturday November 13th at 8.00pm. Con Colbert, a nephew of the
dead patriot, will attend; Education and Training Exhibition for
adults will be held at the Brandon hotel on 10th Nov. from noon
till 7pm, more from 066 7180 190; Liam Lawton will perform on
Sunday, December 19th at 8pm in St. John’s Church. Tralee; The
Blasket Centre now have copies of 4,000 documents relating to
Charles J Haughey; Annual Taoiseach’s Dinner will be held at the
Burlington Hotel, Dublin on Sat. 27th Nov. at 7.30pm. De Valera
Museum in Bruree is well worth a visit, you may need an hour or
two to view and appreciate all the displays.
SOCIAL: Newtownsandes Creamery Social will be held at the Arms
Hotel Listowel on Friday 19th of November, tickets available at
the creamery office.
ICMSA are celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year, they are
holding their Social at the Carlton Hotel in Tralee on Nov. 5th.
PIONEERS Social will be held at Killarney Heights Hotel on Fri.
12th Nov. Limerick Pioneer Social at the Devon Hotel on Fri.
Nov. 12th.
VOLUNTEER Tutors with the Kerry Education Service in 2009
provided 19,000 hours of tuition to 280 learners, well done to
the 143 tutors.
COMHALTAS: Moyvane / Knockanure Comhaltas Anybody interested in
taking part in Ceol an Gheimhridh Competitions in Tralee on the
weekend of Sat. 13th and Sun. 14th November, more from Bridget
McCarthy at 068 49489 after 6.00pm. County AGM of Comhaltas Will
be held at the Meadowlands Hotel on Sunday 7th Nov. at 3.30pm.
ST JOHN’S: Exhibition till Nov 6th by Listowel Community College
V.T.O.S. students; Wednesday 3rd an evening of classical
favorites; Friday 5th An Evening with Jack L; Thursday 11th to
Sat. 13th , Postmen, Priests and Politicians, extracts from J B
Keane plays; Exhibition of etchings from Tue. 9th to 26th of
Nov.by Ivan Armstrong, more from 068 22566.
SIAMSA: Active retired film called Strangers on a Train Wed. 3rd
at 2pm; Gemma Hayes 4th Nov. at 8pm; Documentary on old phone
boxes called Bye Bye Now will be shown on Nov. 5th at 5pm; Young
Artist Maria O Connor in association with Kerry School of Music
Tue. 9th Nov. at 7.30pm, more from 066 712 3055.
I. C. A. Line Dancing classes at the Marian Hall at 8.30pm.
Christmas Shopping to Cork is on Wednesday 1st December. Contact
Eileen Roche on 068 49337. ICA Centenary Dinner at the Skellig
Hotel on Nov. 6th. I.C.A. A County Celebration Evening at
Ballygarry House Hotel, Tralee on Sunday 12th December All are
welcome especially former members. Contact any I.C.A. for more
details.
MASS for deceased members of I.C.A. and their families at the
Marian Hall at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9th November. Everyone is
welcome to this Mass.
DAM:: Inambari dam in Peru will flood 46,000 hectares, displace
15,000 people.
JOBS: Shannon Development and IT Tralee Endeavour programme
predicts that they will support 90 new companies over the next
10 years. Day by day we see existing jobs go in farming and
local business, no state body makes effort to prolong these jobs
as they do not make headlines.
TRAINING; For details of the Counselling Services available and
training courses for those interested in becoming Counsellors,
please contact 066 7122931.
CONVENT Secondary School; Opening Evening and Enrolment for
September 2011 will take place on Wed., 3rd November, 2010, from
5.00pm to 8.00pm. For further information please contact 068
21452.
SCHOOLS in the Parish have a fine art display featuring
Halloween pictures, Kearney’s Bar have their window dressed for
the season also.
FIRST of the Christian graces – humility. Second of the
Christian graces – humility. Third of the Christian graces –
humility, Saint Augustine.
HEADSTONES; The Glasnevin Trust is appealing for the relatives
of 43 Irish men and women who fought in passed wars and are
buried in unmarked graves in Glasnevin to come to an unveiling
ceremony on Remembrance Day, November 11th.
ARMY: Annual Mass for National Ex-Servicemen and women will take
place in St. John’s Church Tralee on Sunday, November 7th at 12
noon.
LEGION: A Mass will be held for American Veterans who served in
the American Forces, Army, Navy and Air Corp who are buried in
Rath Cemetery. This will take place on Saturday, November 20th
at 1.30pm in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Rathass.
REBELLION of 1641 documents are now on line a number of familiar
names give their testimony. More from
http://www.1641.tcd.ie/deposition.php?depID=829170r102
GREAT: Holocaust survivor 106 year old Alice Sommer Herz plays
the piano every day, it saved her life in the prison camp, see
her on YouTube . 44 nuns from seven orders and 6 seminarians ran
the 2010 Beijing Marathon to raise funds for the disadvantaged.
BROTHERS: November 1st 1975 the first big International Seminar
of the Christian Brothers took place in Waterford, it was
organised by past pupils of Mount Sion School. Archbishop Ryan
and President O Dalaigh attended along with about 100 from
abroad and 600 from nearer home.
PROBLEMS: Bishop Daly speaking to the Longford Association
annual dinner in London on Nov. 13th 1975, told them that All
the country’s other problems were eclipsed by this one Our
Country North and South needed violence at this time just as
badly it needed a hole in the head , which 1300 have already
received or its equivalent in Ireland and 30 in England.
Diary of George James Dew Nov. 1st 1877 mentions the extension
of Turnpike Thrusts which would save him ten pence every Monday,
charges at his local Turnpike, beast of burden drawing a
carriage up to 5 pence, horse without carriage up to 1 penny,
cattle up to 12 pence per score, calves and small animals up to
6 pence per score, double Toll on Sundays.
KNOCKANURE School infants 1883; Mary Moran, Ellie Carmody, Kate
Enright, Bridget Connor, Maggie Connor, Nora Flaherty, Ellie
Kearney, Ellie Golden, Kate Culhane, Hanna Leahy, Ellie
Broderick, An Cronin, Nora Casey, Hannah Mulvihill, Maggie
Costelloe, Nora Moore, Kate Fealy, Ellie Fitzgerald, Mary
Pierce, Dora Stack, Nora Kennelly, Mary Sheahan, Nora Quinlan,
Maggie Lynch, Ellie Kelly, Ellie Moore and Maggie Dee. Second
Class 1883; Maggie Carmody, Liz Scanlon, Mary Broderick, Kate
Lynch, Mary Keane, Bridget Scanlon, Liz Mulvihill, Julian R
Stack, Bridget M.J. Stack, Maggie O M. Connor, Maggie Leahy,
Mary A Whyte, Julian J Stack, Maggie Relihan, Bridget Broderick
and Mary A Walsh.
DEATH took place on October 26th 2010 of Mary Carroll nee O
Brien of The Hill, Kilmallock aged 79 years. Her husband Thomas
J., Sister Joan and Brothers James and Michael predeceased her.
Mary is survived by her sons John, Tim and T.J. and daughters
Joanne Clancy and Geraldine Fenton and her brother Tim. Requiem
Mass for Mary Carroll was celebrated on Thursday October 28th
2010 at S.S. Peter and Paul’s Church, Kilmallock by Canon
William Fitzmaurice assisted by nine priests including, locals
Fr McMahon and Fr O Callaghan. Carol Clancy granddaughter of the
late Mary sang the responsorial Psalm. Mary Carroll who taught
in Devon, Cornwall and Dublin in her youth was laid to rest at
Ballingaddy Cemetery beside her husband Thomas J. who died 33
years ago, their daughter Joanne Clancy lives at Knockanure.
ANNIVERSARY: Tim O Connor, Bridie Keating, John Houlihan, Bub
Flavin, Canon John Sheehy, Mary Agnes Barrett, Geoffrey
Hartnett, Donal Riordan, Peter O Connell, John Shanahan, Paddy O
Hanlon, Fr John Shine, Bridget Mary Desmarais, Margaret Collins,
Nan Sullivan, Nora Dillon; Mass on Fri. 5th at 7.30pm in Moyvane
for Fr. John Shine ;Mass on Sat. 6th at 7.30pm for Tim O’Connor;
Mass Sun. 7th 10.00am in Knockanure for Batt (Bub) Flavin.
INDULGENCIES for the Souls. From 12 noon on 1st Nov. until
midnight on 2nd November, all who have confessed, received Holy
Communion, and prayed for the Pope’s intentions (one Our Father
and Hail Mary or any other prayer of one’s choice) can gain one
plenary indulgence by visiting a church or oratory, and there
reciting one Our Father and the Apostles’ Creed. This indulgence
is applicable only to the souls of the departed. Confessions may
be made at any time within the week preceding or the week
following 1st November. Holy Communion may be received on any
day from the 1st November to the 8th November.
The Faithful who visit a cemetery and pray for the dead may
gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the Holy Souls on
the usual conditions once per day from the 1st to 8th November.
The conditions mentioned above apply also for this.
BEREAVED: ‘Coping with Loss & Grief’. A talk will be held
in the Parish Centre Tralee on Wednesday, November 24th at 8pm.
All welcome.
MASS: Would you like a better understanding of the readings at
Mass on Sunday? Come to the Parish Centre Tralee on 4 Thursday
nights, November 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th from 8pm – 9pm. Thurs.
CEMETERIES: November 7th, Canon Declan O Connor will lead a
short prayer service, schedule is as follows: 2.30pm St.
Michael’s Cemetery / 3.00pm John Paul II Cemetery (inclusive of
Teampaill?n Ban) / 3.30pm Finuge Cemetery.
TEAMPAILLÍN Ban Rosary on Sundays at 3pm.
MASS on Thurs. 4th Knockanure at 7.30pm for November Intentions
.Mass in Marian Hall at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9th November for
deceased ICA Members and Families, Everyone is welcome to this
Mass.
FIRST Friday of the Month. Usual Communion Rounds, Knockanure in
the morning and Moyvane in the afternoon.
ADORATION: Moyvane Wed. 10.00am to 7.00pm Sun. 4.00pm to
5.00pm; Knockanure Tues. 10.00am to 6.00pm
READERS: Vigil Seline Mulvihill & Ann Marie Kennelly
11.00am Ciara Healy & Amanda Coulson; Knockanure Patricia
& Andrew Rogan.
STATION: House Station at the home of Nicholas and Mary Kennelly
Friday Nov. 12th 2010.
COLLECTORS for Nov.; Vigil, Jack Shine and Myles Kearney;
11am in Moyvane Con Noonan and Den Hanrahan; Knockanure 10am,
Helen O Sullivan.
TREE: Remembrance Tree will be placed in Church; anyone can add
the names of their relations and friends.
Knockanure Notes – 31st October, 2010
October 31, 2010