ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre, takes place on Monday 12th October 2015.Music by Stevie Donegan. All Welcome, If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.
KNOCKANURE CENTRE: “Dancing Classes”, starting on Wed 7th Oct from 8pm, Waltz, Jiving, Foxtrot etc. All age groups and beginners welcome. For more information ring 087 6809249 or 068 49799. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to last weekend’s Church gate collection.
MISSION APPEAL: The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary will have Sr. Nuala Glynn speaking at all Masses on the weekend of Oct. 10th & 11th. There will be a door collection after all Masses in aid of The Franciscan Missionaries.
THE CHIROPODIST: Marian Hall on Thurs 8th Oct at 10.30am, to book phone Eileen Quinn at 49472.
THE NORTH KERRY EAGLES: are holding their annual Church Gate Collection on Saturday 10th October and Sunday 11th October.
CONGRATULATIONS to the local u14 girls who beat Castlegregory recently 4-6 to 2-2 in the North Kerry League. Congratulations also to Karena Shanahan who won €100 prize for Best Dressed Lady at Moyvane GAA Race Night.
PARISH MAGAZINE: One of the many positive suggestions from our recent Parish meeting was the setting up of a Parish magazine which would be published three to four times yearly. The first issue is planned for this coming Christmas. I invite people to write articles and give me suggestions before Friday Oct 15th, as I plan to send it to the printers to have it published. Photographs old and new would be most welcome.
DEATH has occurred on the 28th of September, 2015 of Mike Lynch of Moyvane Village And formerly of Leitrim Middle, Moyvane. Survived by his daughter Mary, sister Mary, brothers George, John, James, Denis, and Tom, sisters-in-law, brother-in-law, nephews and nieces. Requiem Mass for Mike Lynch was celebrated in Moyvane Church on Thursday, the 1st of October, followed by burial in Ahavoher Cemetery, Knockanure, Moyvane.
DEATH of Gerard Relihan of Kilmihill, Kilmallock & late of Knockadireen, Duagh, on September 30th 2015. Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Brigid’s Church, Duagh, burial afterwards in Springmount Cemetery, Duagh.
DEATH has taken place of sister Nuala (Peg) O’Flaherty, Tubbertoureen and Lancashire, her requiem Mass will be on Friday 9th October 2015. Also in the same order was Sr. Loretto Flaherty who joined Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary in 1937. She spent a lifetime working at Holymount Lancashire died in 2000 in Lancashire. Sister Loretto Flaherty born 1918 daughter of Ned and Catherine Flaherty of Tubbertureen.
ANNIVERSARIES: James Moore, Sr. Ann Doyle, Sr. Dympna Noonan, Joan Mulvihill, Mary Ellen Flaherty, Paudie Shanahan, Michael Moloney, Pat Nolan, Fr. Michael Leahy, Kathleen Fuller, Hannah Hyland, Murt Downes, Harry Stackpoole, Annie Flynn, Paddy Horgan.
MASS Moyvane: Mon 5th at 7.30pm, Special Intention, Billy Kiely. Wed 7th at 7.30pm, Special Intention, Helen Buckley. Fri 9th at 9.30am for Josephine Stack (Anni). Sat 10th at 7.30pm Mary Ellen Flaherty, Keylod, (1st Anni). Sun 11th 11.00am for Joan Mulvihill, Moher, (1st Anni). Mon 12th at 7.30pm, Special Intention, Kitty Curtin. Knockanure Mass, Tues 6th at 7.30pm for Tim O’Mahony, Rec Dec. Thurs 8th at 7.30pm for Sheila Burke, RIP. Sun 11th at 10.00am for Mary O’Connor nee Kennelly, Keylod, Month’s Mind and on Tues 13th at 7.30pm for Dora Aherne, Rec Dec.
MOYVANE BADMINTON CLUB: Registration in Community Centre on Monday 5th Oct at 5.30pm. Price €50 1st child, €80 2nd child, €95 3rd child. Training will be Monday 3rd – 4th class at 6pm, Wednesday- 5th – 6th Class at 5pm, Secondary at 6pm. A parent must be present with their child for Registration.
CONGRATULATIONS to Listowel for winning Ireland’s tidiest small town in the Tidy Towns competition, great credit is due to all involved over the last 22 years. Knockanure and Moyvane increased their marks slightly in their section of the competition.
LISTOWEL CLUSTER AREA PASTORAL COUNCIL were due to meet on Monday 5th October in Knockanure Community Centre at 8.00 p.m…
KNOCK SUNDAY OCTOBER 11th. Names to Margaret Griffin on (066) 7132515.
TOASTMASTERS meet at Desmond Complex NCW, Next meeting takes place on Wednesday, October 7th, Further information from Charles 087 7972855.
FASHION SHOW in aid of Limerick Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will be held in the Devon Inn Hotel, Templeglantine on Wednesday 7th October. Show starts at 8.00pm
FARM SAFETY SEMINAR: A seminar entitled ‘How safe is your farm’ will take place at the Devon Inn on Thursday, October 15 at 7pm. It is organised by Abbeyfeale and District Initiative and will feature the National Chairperson of IFA’s Farm Family Committee Maura Canning, the Development Officer with Muintir na Tire, Diarmuid Cronin and James Clarke from Adare who survived a farm accident. This is a free event and refreshments will be served. All welcome.
WRITING: Children’s Creative Writing Classes at the Seanchai Centre, Listowel began on Saturday October 3rd at 9.30 am. The class will run for 8 weeks and is suitable for children age 7 to 12 years. To book tel. (068) 22212.
PRESENTATION SECONDARY SCHOOL Opening evening and enrolment for the incoming Students for 2016-2017 will take place on this Wednesday 7th October from 5 to 8pm. All are Welcome.
TRADITIONAL MUSIC LESSONS with Anne McAuliffe resuming in the Seanchai Centre, The Square, on Wed., 7th Oct., 2015. Contact 0876736337.
LISTOWEL BRIDGE CLUB: Bridge lessons commencing Thurs 15th Oct. for 8 weeks, those interested, please contact: Marie Galvin 086 0817407 or Maria O’Connor 087 7554996.
ANAM CARA is holding its Parent Evening on Tues 13th Oct, from 19.30 to 21.00 in Recovery Haven 5 Haig’s Terrace, Killerisk, Tralee. All services are available free of charge to bereaved parents.
NORTH KERRY PASTORAL AREA Pilgrimage to Rome for the special year of mercy Oct. 9th to 14th.
YOUTH Ministry Initiative in the Diocese. It is faith based parish programme
A workshop for adult volunteers to familiarise themselves with the Resource Pack will be held on Thursday 22nd October at 7.30 p.m. in John Paul II Pastoral. For bookings call: Bernie McCaffrey on 087 6484367.
ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE: Self Care Day Sat October 10th 9.45 to 4 p.m. facilitated by Anna O’Donoghue and Betty Garnett. Booking: 0879447105 or 087 2498061.
THANKS: On Saturday October 3rd 2015 the contribution of the Mercy Sisters in Tralee since 1858 was acknowledged with gratitude and thanksgiving at their parish Vigil Mass.
POST: An Post has advised customers not to post any items with immediate effect due to industrial action.
ATHEA HORSE AND PONY RACING: Batsy Maher was in touch to say that a committee are planning on resurrecting the Horse and Pony Racing in Athea after 5 years on Sunday, October 11 next. The first race will be at 12.30pm and racing will take place on the lands of Micheal and Helen O’Keeffe. It promises to be a great family day out with loads of entertainment promised for the children. The O’Keeffe lands will be signposted from the village. Further information from Batsy on 087 6533857.
CHOIR WORKSHOP; at Church of the Resurrection, Park Road, Killarney Monday October 19th at 8.00pm with Fr. Liam Lawton. This workshop is open to all choirs, folk groups, school choirs and musicians. Bookings taken before October 14th, for further information 064 6632644.
UN summit on climate change set to run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, known in shorthand as Cop21 because it’s the 21st yearly session of the “Conference of the Parties” to a 1992 UN framework convention on climate change.
CHOIR: Adult Choir each Wednesday evening at 8pm in the Parish Church, Abbeyfeale. New members welcome.
AFTERNOON TEA DANCING: The monthly afternoon tea dance in Fr. Casey’s will be on Sunday, October 11 with music by Country Roads. All proceeds to Reilig |Ide Naofa. Dancing 3-6pm with teas served 4.30pm. Raffle. The graveyard committee would appreciate your support.
ICSA AGM: The AGM of the Limerick branch of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association will take place Wednesday, October 7th in The Desmond Complex in Newcastlewest at 8.30pm. Topics included for discussion on the night include BDGP, the Hen Harrier issue and mental health in farming. Further information from Chairman Seamus Sherlock 087 3854857.
CARD GAME: A card game will be held at Fr. Casey’s GAA club house on Friday night October 16 at 9pm sharp, in aid of Scoil Naomh Pádraig, Knocknasna, Parents Association. All support greatly appreciated.
ST JOHN’S: Wed. 7th ,Rue Du Canal, included many styles including French. Friday and Saturday 9th and 10th , Audacity a play presented by Abbeyfeale Players. Sunday 11th ,The Furey’s. Tuesday 13th Breaking Ground, at 10.30am, the story of the London Irish Women’s Centre, more from 066 22566.
NORTH KERRY ALZHEIMER A Variety concert in aid of Listowel and North Kerry Alzheimer day care service on Friday October 23rd at St John’s Theatre, commencing at 8pm. Contact 23584 for more.
RADIO: West Limerick Community Radio is running a Level 3 FETAC/QQI Course for members aged over 55. Over 10 classes. Participants will gain a QQI/FETAC Level 3 accredited qualification. Training takes place at West Limerick Community Radio’s Station in Newcastle West, Co. Limerick Contact Connie Broderick at 069 66200 to find out more.
TALK: “Creating Space for Community; A conversation with Niall McLaughlin”
A lunchtime seminar (from 1p.m. to 3.00p.) in The Strand Hotel, Limerick on October 7th. Booking essential – 061 315856.
AWARD: Loretta Brennan Glucksman was recently presented with the 2015 Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Award by the Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan, TD.
MISSION Sunday will be celebrated globally on the 18th October 2015.
THOUGHT: Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways. I will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out; if anybody knows of it, it will not count. I will do at least two things I don’t want to
Do-just for exercise. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.
HISTORY: Kerry Weekly Reporter 1883-1920, Saturday, 19 July, 1913; Page: 5
The following engagements are announced to take place in the near future:-Bridget Enright, of Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, to Timothy Driscoll, of Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry. John Barry, of Tullahinnell, County Kerry, to Delia Hannan, of Ballyduhig, Co. Kerry; Katherine O’Connor, of Co Antrim to John Sullivan, of Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry; Hannah Cox, of Ballylongford, County Kerry, to P. Stack, of Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry; M.Sullivan, of Tullamore, Co. Kerry, to Miss Kennedy, of Co. Limerick; Thomas Hennessy, of Larba, County Kerry, to Catherine Callahan, of No. 2649 Harrison street.
Cheered by 50,000 enthusiastic spectators, Kerry on Sunday last at Jones’ Road won the Croke Memorial Medal from Louth, the present holders of the All-Ireland football -championship. Greater enthusiasm was never displayed than when the gold and green sweaters of the Kingdom (Gaels emerged victorious from historic Jones Road. J. McCarthy, of Cork, was referee.
The cablegram “reached me at exactly 12.30 p.m. Sunday, and the thousands who attended the Claremen’s games at Celtic Park were delighted to hear the result that afternoon.- A full report of the great contest will appear in these columns! next week from Daniel McCarthy, ex-captain of the Kerry football team of Now York.
The weather was rather threatening during the past week. Though no great quantity of rain fell, the atmospheric conditions in Tralee district were not altogether favourable, The bright sunshine of this day was an agreeable change.
Farmers require fine weather now to carry on the hay saving operations. A great deal of hay is cut down at present in every part of the country. We understand that Mr. R. D. Murphy, Auctioneer, Tralee, has disposed of the residential holding at Glenduff, near Tralee , for the trustees of Mr. John Conway Hurly, at a large figure, to Mr. H. Walsh , solr., in trust;
Among those who have sailed for Ireland are:-Miss Josephine Shea and Miss Ellen Curran. to Cahirciveen; Mr. Maurice Boland, to Dingle; Miss Bridget Browne and Miss Katherine Leahy, Miss Nora Dowling and Miss Margaret O’Connor, to Listowel; Miss Julia Noonan and Miss Mary Noonan, to Rathmore; Miss Margaret Keane and her sister, Julia to Kilmorna. Co. Kerry; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene O’Connor, and Eugene junr to Tarbert: Miss Catherine O’Shea to Kenmare; Miss Nellie Walsh. Chicago to-Listowel: Miss Ellen Mangan to Listowel; Miss Catherine Sullivan to Tralee.
The Derry County Insurance Committee, at a meeting in Coleraine, temporarily appointed Dr. Adams , Jr., Garvagh , their medical officer, at a salary of £200 yearly. !
The Derry people are not as liberal as we are in Kerry. They think £200 a year is enough for a Tuberculosis Officer; but we have fixed the figure at £650.
INTERNET: GM wheat that may improve the quality of life for celiac patients has faced opposition from anti-GMO. Norero then quotes from blog post by Jose Miguel Mulet, a Spanish plant scientist from CSIC: “How can it be that a technology created with Spanish public funds end up in the hands of a private American company? Because of the aberrant anti-GMO European law. No European or Spanish company is interested in commercially developing this wheat due to obstacles in the authorization process…The result: licensing rights have been acquired by the…Dow Agrosciences, given that the authorization process in the United States is much easier.”
DOCTOR on the internet; DirectLabs, based in Mandeville, Louisiana, offers more routine tests like a $29 metabolic panel — glucose, kidney, fluids, electrolytes, calcium and liver — and a $49 measure of Prostate Specific Antigen, which the company says can be used to detect cancer.
STUDY: University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer on Sept. 30, 2015, announces a $100 million donation from the Pearson family to form the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts.
The world’s first nuclear submarine, The Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946. Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955.
Data from the World Cancer Research Fund suggests that 20,000 cases of breast cancer and about 19,000 cases of bowel cancer could be stopped each year with small changes in lifestyle in UK.
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