AGM of Knockanure Development
Association will be held Knockanure Community Centre on June 9th
at 8.30pm. After the AGM a meeting concerning the defibrillator
with Roger Byrne will be held.
ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre will be
held on Monday 13th of June, book with 068 49799.
CARE of the aged meeting was due to be held in the Marian Hall
on Tuesday 7th of June at 8pm.
KDYS Summer camp details from 068 23744.
YOUTH 2000 Summer Camp at Clonmacnois , more information from
youth2000.ie
TRIP: Moyvane ICA are organizing a trip to the Dublin Horse Show
on Wed, 3rd Aug. 2011, details from Eileen Roche and Marie
Walsh.
BLOOD Transfusion clinic will be held at Fr Casey Hall on
Tuesday and Wednesday 7th and 8th of June from 6 to 9pm each
day.
HOPE all everyone had a happy Bank Holiday weekend, at last we
got had some summer heat for a few hours.
EVENTS: Deafhear will have an outreach morning at the Citizens
Information Centre at the Square in Listowel on June 10th from
10am to 12.30pm; Walk and cycle on Saturday 18th June will
celebrate both the twenty years since the establishment of the
Great Southern Trail Action Group and the recent extension which
now enables the Rathkeale to Abbeyfeale section of the old
Limerick-Tralee railway to be used for cycling/walking; Denny
Mulvihill from Athea is to cycle for charity from Mizen to Malin
Head from June 13th to 18th; Racing in Limerick on June 11th and
on the following day in Cork; Bioenergy 2011 conference takes
place at Johnstown Castle, Wexford on Thursday 16th June 2011;
Clounmacon ICA outing is on June 24th; Knock Summer Festival
runs from 24th to 26th of June; Athea group are proposing to
climb Mangerton Mountain on June 26th; Clounmacon recently beat
Knockanure in the County Junior League, score 3-10 to 0-6;
Tarbert Pastoral Council are going on a trip to Scattery Island
on July 24th; Postcard Campaign is being organized Stop the
European Union helping itself to developing countries’ raw
materials!;
ACTIVE HEART: will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday, June
7th at Kerins O’Rahilly’s GAA Club at 8pm. Guest speaker: Eoin
Burnes who demonstrates Buteyko breathing which would be of
interest to people with asthma, snoring or sleeping disorders.
All welcome.
EDUCATION: John Marcus O Sullivan Education Summer School will
take place at the Carlton Hotel on Thursday & Friday, June
16th & 17th covering religion, diversity & publicly
managed schools in Ireland. Key Speaker: Prof. Walter
Feinberg. Contact Kerry Education Service (KES), Riverside
House, Dan Spring Road. Phone – 7121488.
DYSLEXIA information night will be held at the Lanterns Hotel
on Thursday June 9th at 7pm, details from 087 9310 233.
WRITERS Week in Listowel attracted the attention of both the
locals and the national media. They had a packed programme to
celebrate their 40th anniversary; the success of Writers Week
was only a dream to the founders of the event.
GARDEN: A four week course will be held at the Abbeyfeale
Community Garden beginning Wednesday, June 15 from 7-9pm . The
Tutor will be Dr. Sinead Neiland, Senior Tutor at Dromcollogher
Organic College ,to book your place contact 087 6866450.
GREAT to see the tradition of planting and caring for flowers is
continuing both in the Village and private lawns.
CANCER Society presentation offering practical advice on
understanding and managing the emotional effects of cancer, from
diagnosis stage onwards. This will take place at the Carlton
Hotel on Monday, June 13th. To book call Valarie on 01 2310518
before Tuesday, June 7th.
THANKS: The Irish Cancer Society would like to thank all who
helped collect E954 at their recent Church Gate collection in
the Parish.
CAR boot sale and indoor market in aid of WL102fm will be held
at the Community Centre, NCW on Sunday, June 12. Gates open at
7.30am. Sale from 9-2pm. Further information 087 6866450.
EXAMS: We will be thinking of all the students who start their
exams on June 8th, hope they use every minute to improve their
profile for the examiners.
CELEBRATIONS were held at Ballyguiltenane N.S recently to mark
the 125th anniversary of the opening of the school. They have
modernised both the fabric and equipment at the school in recent
years and are seeking the Blue Flag and planting a garden. Local
woman with many relations in Moyvane and Knockanure Mary
Kennelly is the School Principal.
MAGAZINE: Tarbert Comprehensive school magazine is now
available. The school had their awards day on May 19th 2011,
there were 32 categories of awards, their CD is available
locally and proceeds are going to charity.
SUNFLOWER Day Collection is on Friday & Saturday 10th &
11th June. Volunteers urgently needed cause. please phone Kay on
087-6975682 or Jenny on 086-3934134.
FETE will take place on Sunday, June 12th in Fr Casey’s GAA
Clubhouse Abbeyfeale from 2-6pm. Items for auction ( antiques,
furniture, ornaments etc.) Bric– a –brac, Books Clothes in good
condition, Turf, Timber, groceries etc. Details of collection,
contact 068 51915.
LOTTO Results for 27th May 2011, numbers drawn were 4-17-19-29
No Winner of E8,500 Jackpot, Lucky Dips; Tim Horgan ,Trien,
Kilmorna Ann Jones, Ballybunion; Micheal Woods, Knockanure;
Marguerite Woods, Knockanure; John Barry, Knockanure; Mary
Hanrahan, Lower Aughrim, Moyvane;
Bar Prize Angela Sheehy;
LOTTO Results 3rd June; Jackpot E8,600, numbers drawn were
2-12-20 and 21, No Winner. Lucky Dips; Mike Lennon, Listowel;
Wren Family, Tournafulla; Jack O Keeffe, Kilmorna; Niamh O
Keeffe, Kilmorna; Mike Horgan, Kilmorna; Nora Fitzmaurice
Moyvane; Bar Prize Joe Enright Next weeks Jackpot E8,700
WISHING Pat Brosnan a speedy return to reporting and
participating in local events.
ARCHIVES: Taken from Kerryman of June 10th 1988; Names for
Moyvane include, Murhur, Newtown Dillon, Newtown Clarke, named
Moyvane in 1939. Moyvane had the first Kildare Place School in
Kerry, opened 1818 with 120 pupils and Michael Keane was its
first teacher, the school was taught by a Priest in 1827, it was
transferred to the National School in 1833. Inspectors report
1909 P J Fitzgerald said about teachers, both wore hats when I
visited, not good manners to wear hats in school. 1914 report,
the pupils are not bright enough, alert enough or well dressed,
there is an absence of self respect. The oldest register 1861,
Timothy Enright first entry, his address Newtown, son of a
shopkeeper, was aged 4 years, he left in 1872. Dan Walsh was
last entry in register in 1908, Thomas Callaghan was aged 12
years. When Bishop Moriarty visited in 1856 there were 320
houses in Murhur, four Protestant families, 90 baptisms and 22
marriages.
CATCHER: I can only fly freely when I know there is a catcher to
catch me. If we are to take risks, to be free, in the air, in
life, we have to know that when we come down from it all, we’re
going to be caught; we’re going to be safe. The great hero is
the least visible. Trust the Catcher, Henri J. M. Nouwen.
LOUGH Derg Pilgrimages; June 28th to 30th, July 29th to 31st,
August 12th to14th, Details from Peg at 068 31232.
ADORATION: Moyvane Sun. 4.00pm to 5.00pm, Wed. 10.00am to
7.00pm and Knockanure Tues. 10.00am to 6.00pm; Listowel on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays after 10.30am Mass till 7pm. Eucharistic
Procession in Listowel this year, is on Sunday 26th June. The
route is from St. Mary’s Church to Kerry Parents & Friends,
Clieveragh.
DEATH took place on 29th May 2011 of Mary Flavin , nee O
Flaherty Glenagragra, Athea. Mary was predeceased by her
husband Bill, daughter Hannah and brothers Tim, William,
Michael and John and is survived by her sons, daughters,
grandchildren, great-grand- children, brothers, Pat and Tom
sisters, Hannah Stack and Nora Lynch . Following Requiem Mass at
the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Glin on Wednesday June
1st, Mary Flavin was laid to rest at Kilfergus Cemetery, Glin.
Mary was daughter of Tim Flaherty and Hannah O Connor of
Gortdromagowna, Knockanure. Tim and Hannah died in 1982 and are
buried at Ahavoher Cemetery with their son John who died in 2005
.
ANNIVERSARIES: Hannie Mulvihill, Sadie Shanahan, Howard
Flannery, Eugene O Sullivan, Elizabeth Emmery, Oaddy Doody, Sr.
Gabriel Galvin, Peg Normile, John Paul McMahon, Sr. Claude
Sheehy, P J Flavin, Joan O Donnell, Johanna Stokes, Mai Galvin,
Bessie Nealon, Tom Moloney, Mary Margaret Dillon, Liam Cronin;
Mass on Tuesday 7th for Hughie Fitzmaurice at 8pm; Mass on
Friday in Moyvane for Brid Broder at 8pm; Mass on Sat. 11th at
8pm for Nora Adams nee Stack; Mass on Sun. 12th in Knockanure
at 10am for Dolores Carmody and the 11am Mass in Moyvane is for
John and Peggy Collins and deceased members of the Collins
family.
READERS: Vigil, Michelle Corridan 11am Paul and Anthony Kiely
and 10am in Knockanure Mary O Flaherty and Siobhan Fitzgerald.
MEDJUGORJE 30th Anniversary will be marked at St. Brendan’s
Church, Tralee, Reconciliation, Rosary, Mass & Adoration on
Monday June 13th at 8.30pm. Sacrament of Confession will begin
at 6.30pm. All are welcome.
BISHOP MURPHY: open invitation to parishioners to attend the
Golden Jubilee celebration of Bishop Bill’s ordination to the
priesthood, which will take place in St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Killarney at 6.15pm on Sunday, June 19th, All welcome.
PHOTO display in St. John’s Church, Tralee has been compiled
by some members of St. John’s Youth Leadership Group.
NATIONAL Eucharistic Congress will take place on Saturday,
June 25th at Our Lady’s Shrine at Knock. Groups from all over
the country are expected to attend. The day begins with morning
prayer at 11am followed by workshops and a celebration of the
Eucharist at 2.30pm.
KNOCK VIGIL: will be held on Saturday, June 11th from 9pm –
1am. The theme of the vigil is ‘Healing for a New
Evangelization’. The intentions of the Vigil are: 1) the
Eucharistic congress June 2012, and 2) the Synod of Bishops on
the Evangelization to be held in October 2012.
PRAYERS: On Pentecost Sunday, June 12th, Janice and Moss Carrig
will hold a prayer meeting in the Blessed Sacrament Church,
Abbeyfeale at 3pm, everyone welcome.
CHOIR: Sunday Folk Choir, details from 087 2884869.
Knockanure Notes – 5th June, 2011
June 5, 2011