by Jer Kennelly
RAMBLING HOUSES: Every 1st Thursday of each month there is a Rambling House in the Community Centre in Knockanure. All musicians, singers’ dancers and storytellers are most welcome to attend. Knockalougha on the 3rd. Tuesday of the month.
FAMILY Fun Day in Knockanure on Sunday August 13th beginning at 1-pm in conjunction with Knockanure Vintage Rally.
ST PIO: Fri 4th, St. Padre Pio & First Friday Evening Mass Listowel / Mary Thornton, Dromin, at 6:45.
PARISH: Confessions: On request before/after any Mass. Eucharistic Adoration: every Tues. after 10.00am Mass to 11.30am. Baptisms: Saturday afternoons only from 12 noon to 4pm.
Graveyard Masses; All Masses at 8pm. Friday Aug. 4th – Ahavoher; Tues. Aug.8th – Knockanure
Wednesday 9th Aug. – Murhur.
DEATH of Maurice (Moss) Gaire, Duagh Village, on July 27th, 2023, son of the late Patrick and Joan. Survived by his wife Betty, sons Francis and Kieran, daughter Teresa, daughter-in-law Martina, son-in-law Stephen, brother Jack, sisters Mary Goff and Fiona Danagher, brothers-in-law, sister-in-law, nephews, and nieces.
DEATH of Noreen (Nody) O’Connor (nee Brandon), Cambridgeshire, UK – late of Moyvane, passed away on Monday, 10th July 2023, at Peterborough City Hospital. Wife of Patrick Joseph, sister to Mary, the late Eugene Brandon and the late Margaret O’Connor. Survived by her husband Pat, son John, her nieces and nephews.
SYMPATHY to relatives of Seamus Fitzmaurice who died in Australia recently.
ANNIVERSARIES: Kieran Curtin, Peggy McElligott, buried Lisselton Fr Laurence Mangan of Hartford diocese on 2 Aug 1863, Barry Leach Eirin O Donoghue, Fr. John Kennelly, John Denihan, Betty griffin, Mary Cronin, Sean Redmond, Eliza Walsh, Mary Cullanane, Tom Scanlon,
ORDINATION: Best wishes to Mark Moriarty who will be ordained to the priesthood in the in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney on Sunday August 13th at 3pm.
GAA Knockanure Lotto Results from Tuesday July 18th; Jackpot was €3,600. Numbers Drawn: 12, 15, 19, and 30. No winner but lucky dips went to: 1. Mike Hussey, Ballyduff c/o Con Lynch; 2. Ellemarie Kearney, Moyvane; 3. Jim Greaney, Kilmorna; 4. Dan White, c/o John Barry, and 5. Pat Mulvihill, Knockanure. Draw on Tuesday July 25th in the clubhouse and jackpot €3,700. Results- Numbers Drawn: 3, 7, 19, and 21. No winner but lucky dips went to: 1. Steve Smith, Ploughman Bar; 2. John Barry, Knockanure; 3. Mike Collins, Lissaniska; 4. Mike Lynch, Taxi, Moyvane, and 5. Liz and Daniel, c/o Goulds Shop. Next draw will be on next Tuesday August 1st in the clubhouse and jackpot will be €3,800.
RESULTS 21st July: U15 North Kerry League- Moyvane 6-11 and Listowel 4-10.
GRAVEYARD Mass –Lislaughtin Abbey – Friday 4th August at 7pm. Kilnaughtin Graveyard – Friday 11th August at 7pm. St. Mary’s Cemetery, Tarbert – Friday 18th August at 7pm. Please note that all Graveyard Masses are at 7pm. Kilconley Cemetery annual mass Friday August 11th at 7pm.
FESTIVAL: Ballylongford Oyster Festival will be held from Friday 4th August to Bank Holiday Monday 7th August.
FULL Moon 1st and 31st.
MUSIC: “Ceol by the Gale” Athea Comhaltas branch will host an evening of music, song, dance and craic on the riverbank by the bridge on Saturday Aug. 5th (weather and midges permitting) at 6pm.
There will also be a free bar-b-que with sessions afterwards in pubs with a traditional singing night at Batt’s Bar. Everyone welcome.
SEISIÚN NIGHTS: Templeglantine Comhaltas Branch will host the Limerick show at the Devon Inn Hotel on Thursday nights at 8.30pm.
SINGING CLUB Abbeyfeale: on Friday, August 4 in The Ramble Inn, Church St. Abbeyfeale. The full session will be recorded by John Prendergast for his ‘What Matters Programme’.
DAN PADDY ANDY FEST: “The August Bank Holiday Weekend. The 25th Dan Paddy Andy Festival will have seven bands. “The stories and humour from Sean O Se, the ‘Puc ar Buille man’ will sing a few songs as will the Listowel Balladeer, John Kinsella. Audience participation is encouraged. On Friday night the ‘Robins’ will surely come home when Paudie McAuliffe plays for the dancing in the marquee. Saturday morning, August 5, the popular Bog Walk will be a chance to introduce young people to a unique environment and old skills and the older people will come along for the memories and for the ‘Tae in the Bog’. The walkers will be back in time for the Kids party Club with Teresa and her puppets at 1.30pm. The marquee will resound to the music of Heart and Soul that night. The 5/10K-Walk/Run on Sunday morning offers a choice of terrain ranging from mass paths and woodland trails in the 5km to the category five climb at Collins Hill in the 10km. Apart from the medals for all, and the trophies and prize money to be won, Afternoon dancing with Eddie Lee and the Paudie Coffey Band (including a Waltzing Competition) follows. Later on Sunday night Mike Condon will warm people up for Jack Keogh in what promises to be a mighty occasion.
The weekend-long dancing fest concludes on Bank Holiday Monday with five hours of afternoon marquee dancing to the music of Bernie Heaney from Kildare followed by Ger Healy Rae, the Singing Jarvey.
TRALEE STREET FEST: ‘Tralee StreetFest’ will be held between 18 and 22 August, during the Rose of Tralee International Festival.
FLEADH: Traditional musicians of all ages are invited to gather once again in Mullingar from 6th to 14th August for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2023 – Mullingar 2023.
DUAGH: THREE GREAT NIGHTS – from Fri 18th Aug to Sun 20th Aug 2023. Fri 18th Michael English and his band €30. Sat 19th ABBA-esque €22. Sun 20th Trudi Lalor and the Matrimony Band with Paddy O’Brien and TR Dallas €25. You can also get a weekend pass for €65. Full Bar Facilities as well as numerous Spot Prizes each night. Contact 087-2684540 or get them on Eventbrite.ie.
SHOP: Down Syndrome Kerry new store is at 11 Strand Street, Tralee.
HEARSE: Tralee has a motorcycle hearse, saw it last week.
ST JOHNS: Exhibition of paintings called Monserrat Benet Morella on Wed Aug 2nd at 7pm, it continues all of August; Thursday 3rd Theatre- Moments in Life, highlights the beauty of the ordinary; Thursday 17th – Concert- Dago Red, details from St John’s Theatre and Arts Centre The Square, Listowel, 068 225 66.
LISTOWEL/NEWCASTLEWEST CASTLES: are open to visitors for the summer months. There will be guides available to conduct tours.
TINTEAN Ballybunion; Cliona O Hagan on 4th of August, and Sounds Country on 9th of August. Details from 068 25 555.
REFLECTION: Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bare levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them? —Samuel Johnson.
BEST Wishes to Ed Carmody born in Moyvane and now in South Africa at 81 years of age,
was awarded his 2nd Dan Black Belt recently. In the 1960’s he worked as a Garda in Cork City.
HOSPITAL in Tralee: For Non-COVID Positive Patients: General Wards: One visit per patient per day, timings to be agreed with the visiting co-ordinator. Contact the UHK Visiting Co-ordinator at 087-1138053. For COVID Positive Patients: Visiting will not be permitted for patients who have tested positive for COVID, except on compassionate grounds, contact the hospital for more details.
HOME Care. People aged 45-54 years provide care more than any other age group. It is a pity that young people generally do not make an effort to support their elders.
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER: European Family Weekend August 25-27 offers families the opportunity to energise their relationships, using a language and an approach suitable for all ages (6 years and older). We request a non-refundable deposit of €50 (£45) per family (towards the cost of the venue). We will simply ask families to donate what they can afford at the end of the weekend. Register your interest on [email protected]
EMISSIONS: Lowering the crude protein content of diets can substantially reduce ammonia emissions from dairy cow manures. This is one of the findings of a major four-year project currently underway at Northern Ireland’s Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI).
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/less-crude-protein-reduces-ammonia-emissions-from-cow-slurry/
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GREEN: Senator Roisin Garvey, Green Party Spokesperson on Rural Development, Enterprise, Trade and Employment, said; “We have set an ambitious target of installing solar panels on 700,000 homes and 55,000 businesses by 2030 and are taking decisive steps to make this a reality.
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INTERNET: The latest data from Census 2022, shows that while 83% of dwellings have some form of internet connection, 20% of dwellings headed by person aged 65 and over have no internet connection. Aged over 65 living alone no internet by 34%.
Peter Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer, National Broadband Ireland tells us in Kerry they will connect 28,000 premises.
MILK: Teagasc dairy farm income in 2023 is forecast to decrease by more than 50pc on the 2022 level.
WORK Ethic: The value of a farm upbringing in instilling a work ethic was highlighted recently when entrepreneur Denis O’Brien revealed that in Digicel, they mainly hire ‘culchies’.
“It’s because anybody who worked on a farm knows commerce and is reared in a kind of commerce,” he said.
“It’s not a formal commerce that you might get in UCD (University College Dublin), but certainly if you’re living on a farm with your parents trying to eke out a living, it’s a different world as such,” he said during a question-and-answer session after being inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/farm-upbringing-praised-for-instilling-good-work-ethic/
TAX: The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association is seeking a tax exemption for all payments farmers receive under various environmental schemes.
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TRALEE: https://youtu.be/g7eS85R_sGw
Filename Tralee walk Town and Allotments July 2023
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ARDFERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: ‘Casement Trail’ – Join us on Bank Holiday Monday 7 August at 11 am at the Roger Casement Memorial in Carrahane. We will then proceed to Casement’s Fort and Ardfert Village to the bust of Roger Casement. All welcome. Duration about 2.5 hrs and distance 5 km.
REFLECTION on Foreign Missions:
The Foundation Letters of the Brazil Mission – letters from the Archives, Part 20
by Margie Buttitta SSL, USA/Brazil Community Archivist. In Part 20 of the series, we share one informative letter from Bishop Collins to Catherine Foley SSL, expressing his excitement at their imminent arrival the following month,
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AUGUST IS THE MONTH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491 – 1556): Feast Day 31st July. He was born into a Spanish noble family and in his youth was a soldier and not too interested in religion. However in 1521 he was injured in a battle at Pamplona and during his recovery he read the Bible and the Lives of different Saints and this made him dedicate himself to the Lord. From 1528 on he studied in Paris (France) and there with Saint Francis Xavier and five other companions took vows of chastity and poverty in 1534 and founded the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits, as they are commonly known, in 1537. Ignatius was the first superior general of the order and moved to Rome in 1541 where he died on 31st July 1556. He was beatified on 27th July 1609 and canonised on 12th March 1622 along with Saint Francis Xavier,
Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Isidore the Farmer and Saint Philip Neri.
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- PATRICK PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY MAYNOOTH: 2023 Post Graduate Programmes in Theology & Philosophy. Applications open until 14th August. For queries call 017083391.
YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL – Thursday to Sunday 10th – 13th August is a four day Catholic event. Hear amazing talks. Meet other young Catholics. Explore your Faith. Come and see. No set charge. Donation only event. We have free buses coming from all across Ireland. To book www.youth2000.ie
EUROPEAN FAMILY WEEKEND, CO. KILDARE, 25 – 27 AUGUST 2023: The Family Weekend offers families the opportunity to energise their relationships, using a language and an approach suitable for all ages (6 years and older). We request a non-refundable deposit of €50 (£45) per family (towards the cost of the venue). We will simply ask families to donate what they can afford at the end of the weekend. Register your interest on [email protected]
POETRY:
Poetry from Michael Patrick Moore- Apr 10, 2023
Poetry
MORNING
Woken by sunlight upon me that shone
Through my bedroom window the morning seen,
A raucous riot of red and green,
Lorikeets adorning callistemon.
An avian chorus announcing the day
From perfumed Eucalypts promising rain,
And now seeking flowers and seeking grain,
All manner of creatures at work and play.
Thankful am I for this sensory feast
Thankful am I for the gift of this day,
The return of light after night times’ fall.
Just to be part of this morning released,
For the few precious lines, mine in this play,
Just for the gift of this morning at all.
THE NEWNESS OF THINGS
The stars are fading,
To the east a match is struck
Heralding the dawn.
At one with the sun,
With gratitude I rise now
With the rising world.
Synchronicity,
My heart beats in perfect time
With the woken day.
The lines become blurred,
Between all that is and I
Such affinity.
No mere backdrop this,
I feel all, I am part of
The fabric of things.
I was born in Queensland the fourth of six children, Fourth generation Australian born on my mother’s side who were predominantly of Irish stock who came to Australia post the famine years (for the most part from the counties of Tipperary, Wicklow and Donegal). My father came to Australia from Dublin in the 1950s; his father was raised in Maam Connemara and later in Kilkee County Clare but the Moore family going back were from Kilmorna, later known as Kilmeany near Listowel. His mother, was a Barrett from Ennis, County Clare, that whole family very involved in those troubled years of the war of independence in Ireland. Also just out of interest I was part of a little Folk/Irish trio called Welder’s Dog for 10 years or so, with a brother of mine David and our friend Peter Harris, some of our music is still on YouTube I believe. If you listen to Castle Hill Patriots, that is my Dad singing Boolavogue at the start of that song.
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Eucharistic miracle
The same blood type on the Shroud of Turin and Lanciano
Initially, it was ruled out that the stains were of wood resin or animal blood. Subsequent procedures revealed that the blood was human and was type AB with a positive Rh factor, the same as the eucharistic miracle of Lanciano, Italy, as well as that found on the Shroud of Turin, also in Italy.
According to the World Population Review portal in Honduras, less than 2.5% of the population in that country has that same blood type.
The expert tests also ruled out that the pattern of the blood stains could have been made artificially.
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EXPLORE: Brilliant Ballybunion will engage the local community to creatively explore the future for Ballybunion in terms of protecting biodiversity, ensuring food security, addressing climate and long term sustainability. The Ballybunion Community Forum with local artists and farmers Lisa Fingleton and Rena Blake, Dr Clare Watson (UCD), dancer Catherine Young, Dr Joanne O’Brien (Atlantic Technological University) and Dr Cathy Fitzgerald (Haumea Ecoversity) will work together with the residents and businesses of Ballybunion to galvanise this coastal town to create a more sustainable future.
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- S. and 12 allies are holding a military exercise involving 30,000 troops in Australia.
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FINBARR: Celebrating St. Finbarr’s Day and the lone Gougane Barra
St. Finbarr’s Day: Do you celebrate “Gougane Sunday” on September 25?
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/st-finbarrs-day-gougane-sunday
Three is a green island in lone Gougane Barra,
Where Allua of songs rushes forth as an arrow,
In deep valley’d Desmond – a thousand wild fountains
Come down to that lake from their homes in the mountains.
There grows the wild ash and a time stricken willow,
Looks chidingly down on the mirth of the billow,
As like some gay child that sad monitor scorning,
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