by Jer Kennelly
ROSARY at the Grotto Moyvane every Tuesday evening at 7pm and at Knockanure Grotto each Thursday at 8pm for the month of May. All welcome.
CONGRATULATIONS to the local children who recently received their First Communion, great to see also the art work on display in the church. This day will be recalled by them to the end of their days.
The school also sand a fine selection of hymns. They may one day be part of the parish choir.
COLLECTION at Mass, May 18th & 19th for Education of Clergy.
PADRE PIO: ST Pio prayer meeting at Castleisland on May 14th 2024 – (Second Tuesday).
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION REMINDER: Retreat this year at Our Lady’s and St Brendan’s Tralee on Friday 31st May 2024. Presenters: Fr. Jim Lenihan/ Deacon Thady O’Connor. Mass Celebrant Bishop Ray. Bookings: Margaret 087 297 6304: Breda 0876742306.
DEATH has taken place of Sheila (Chris) Walsh née O’Keeffe of Ahabeg and formerly Knockburrane, Lixnaw, on 28th April 2024, wife of the late John and mother of John (Johnny) and sister of Noreen, Betty, Nancy, Mary, Helen, Kitty, Sonny, Sean, Patsy, Eamon, Joe and the late Michael (Mick). Missed by her grandchildren Niamh and Alison, daughter-in-law Vivienne, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, and nieces. The Requiem Mass for Sheila will be celebrated at St. Michael’s Church,
Lixnaw on Thursday, followed by Interment afterwards in Kiltomey Cemetery, Lixnaw.
DEATH of Margaret (Peg) Sweeney (née Flavin), Woodgrove, Moyvane, on May 5th, 2024, wife of the late Eamon and mother of the late Pat. Margaret is survived by her daughter Breda, sons Eamon, Gene, John and Paschal, her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, daughters-in-law Peg, Marian, Áine and Molly, brother Denis, nephews, and nieces.
Funeral arrived at the Church of the Assumption, Moyvane, on Wednesday morning for the Requiem Mass for Peg, burial afterwards in Ahavoher Cemetery.
DEATH of Maureen Quinn nee Flavin of Dirha Cottages, Listowel, on 21st January 2024, wife of the late Michael (Mickey), mother of Mike, John, Pat, Eugene and dear sister of Margaret (Sweeney) & Denis. Survived by her family, her grandchildren Sarah, Lesley, Shelley, Elissa, Eimear, Sarah, Paudie & Aidan, her thirteen great grandchildren, daughters-in-law Martha, Liz & Tina, nephews, and nieces.
ANNIVERSARIES: Anne Prendiville, Mike O Connor, Fr. Roger Duggan, Billy McElligott, Jimmy Fitzgerald, Francis Brosnan, Peter McGrath, Tim Kennelly, Joseph Kiely, Nora Lane, Gretta Bambury, Tim Broderick, Tady Finucane, Eileen Scanlon, Mary Stack,
MASS INTENTIONS: Sat.11th May’24- Moyvane for Paudie Hanrahan (1st Aniv.) at 7.30pm; Sun.12th May’24 Knockanure for Maureen & Patrick Sweeney & deceased of the Sweeney family at 9.30am, and Mass Moyvane for David Foley (Aniv.) and deceased of the Foley & O’Connor families, Kilbaha at 11am; Tues.14th May’24 Moyvane for Anne Prendiville (Aniv.) Carrueragh at 10am; Weds.15 May’24
Knockanure a Private Intention at 10am; Thurs.16 May’24 Moyvane for Michael Dore (Aniv.) Woodgrove at 10am; Fri.17th May’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 10am; Sat.18th May’24- Moyvane for Tom & Bridie McCarthy (Aniv.’s) at 7.30pm; Sun.19th May’24 Knockanure for Jerry & Ellen Enright (Aniv.’s) Lissaniskea at 9.30am, and Mass Moyvane for William Moloney (1st Aniv.) Keylod 11am.
JUBILEE: The Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee was officially proclaimed on Thursday last by Pope Francis, who presided over a formal reading of the Jubilee’s papal bull of indiction.
FEAST of Our Lady of Fatima is celebrated on Monday 13th May. In May 1917 Our Lady appeared to three children at Fatima in Portugal and asked them to pray for peace and that sinners might return to God’s Way. Feast of St. Brendan the Navigator is celebrated on Thursday 16th May, patron of the diocese of Kerry.
COMMEMORATION will be held at the Gortaglanna Monument on Sunday 12th May at noon sharp. All welcome.
THE HSE Community Work Department and Community Health Network, in partnership with older person groups in Tralee are hosting an event in The Rose Hotel Tralee on Wednesday, May 15, from 10am to 2pm. including a talk from Dr Mary Randles on geriatric medicine, on Meals on Wheels, Memory and Stimulaton and more. There will also be numerous stands from St Vincent de Paul, Kerry Library, the HSE, Alzheimer Society of Ireland and more. For more information, contact 066-7104830.
VINTAGE: Dromcollogher & District Respite Care Centre Vintage Rally & Fair May 19th
GAA: Minor NKL Div 1 Result: Moyvane 3-11, Tarbert/Ballylongford 2-15.
FAIR: Kingdom County Fair Showgrounds, Ballymacthomas, Tralee, take place on Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th of May 2024.
HORSE Racing Killarney 12 to 14th of May.
FOOD Festival in Tralee, from May 17th to May 19th, 2024.
CEMETERY MASSES, Listowel, St. Michael’s Cemetery, Tuesday 25th June, St. John Paul II Cemetery, Wednesday 26th June and Finuge Thursday 27th June all masses are at 8pm. Annual cemetery mass St Johns Ballybunion Friday 7th June at 7pm.
CEMETERY Masses: Glin Church Grounds: 9th June at 2pm, Kilfergus Cemetery 16th June at 2pm and Kinnard Cemetery 17th June at 7.30pm.
MEDJUGORJE Prayer Meeting Listowel will take place after 10.30am mass on Monday, May 13th in the parish meeting room. All welcome.
TG4: Sunday at 9.30pm, Italian-born fiddle player Andrea Palandri (from Venice, Italy, now living in Baile na nGall, traces the life and music of Pádraig O’Keeffe.
MILK: Kerry Group is currently working on a new contract for its milk suppliers, according to the head of the company’s dairy division.
Pat Murphy, the chief executive of Dairy Ireland, told Agriland that they have been getting “a few” questions from milk suppliers on the issue.
“Our current contract with suppliers expires in April 2026. We’ve told the board of Kerry Co-op that we’re currently in the process of drawing up a new contract and that will be available over the next number of months.
https://www.agriland.ie/
WEATHER and Farmers; “In the 1740s we had two years of incessant rain where a third of our population died because they starved and many of our animals died at that time as well.
What About 1847, 1883 and 1886 ? “Then there were years like 1847, 1883 and 1886, and there were fewer diesel engines then. More at
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TRALEE RED CROSS are running a Free Red Cross ‘Taster Session’ for prospective volunteers on Sat. May 18th. Enquiries from [email protected]
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JOB in NZ: if you want more information get in touch. Happy to have a chat about the farms and job on offer. In previous seasons we have employed Irish looking to come to NZ for work experience so can provide contacts also if you wish to chat about their experience on our farms here in NZ.
Kind Regards, Hamish and Emma Day – Dairytime Ltd
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FUNDS: MTU are promised €7.6 million in funding to advance its research projects through the Enterprise Ireland Technology Gateway Programme until 2029.
DEMENTIA INCLUSIVE LISTOWEL are holding a Memory Wellness and Dementia Awareness Event in Listowel Arms Hotel from 6.30pm – 9pm on Thursday, 16th May. This is a free event to promote the importance of memory wellness and will include an input from Consultant neurologist Dr. Antoinette O’Connor from Tallaght University Hospital. Her research has focused on investigating accessible biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular focus on early disease detection. This will be followed by a panel discussion. There will also be some information Stands open at 6.30pm. Places are limited. Booking is essential. To book please log onto https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
DUAGH SPORTS & LEISURE COMPLEX: A weekend of music takes place in the Complex on Friday 24th May and Saturday May 25th. The Tina Turner Tribute Act with Rebecca O’Connor takes centre stage with her tribute to the legendary songstress. Tickets – €30. On Saturday, May 25th, rising star Jack Keogh and The Kilkenny’s will be catering to those who enjoy Country and Folk. Tickets – €25. There is also a Weekend Ticket option for €50. Tickets can be purchased from any committee member or ring 087 2684540 or log onto Eventbrite.ie
DANCE: Social Dancing in Ballybunion every Tuesday night at 7.30pm.
DOG SHOW: on Sunday May 19th at 2pm in the Town Park Abbeyfeale.
PLAY: The Abha Bhán Players “A Tomb with a View” will be staged in the Glorach in Abbeyfeale on Saturday May 25 at 8 pm. Book by ringing 087/ 1383940.
JIVING LESSONS AT THE RAILWAY Abbeyfeale: Friday nights. 8.30pm. No partner required. Contact Tom 087 9360421.
CARDS: There is a weekly Card Game at Athea GAA Clubhouse on Tuesday evenings from 8pm – 10.30pm. All welcome,
ST JOHNS: Wed 15th Concert with Ahmed Dickinson & Eduardo Martin; The Bridge; Youth Theatre on 22nd and 23rd; Concert on Fri. 24th and Big Maggie 28th and 30th, details from 068 22566.
ROSARY RALLY – Knock – June 1st: The All Ireland Rosary Rally is back this year on Saturday, June 1st in Knock. The day begins with a Marian Conference at 9.30 am in St John’s Centre. Speakers include: Fr Michael Donnelly, Sr Ana Margarita Lanzas SCTJM, and Fr Joseph Maria Deane CFR. Then there will be an opportunity to meet over 20 apostolates from around Ireland from 11.30 am in St John’s Centre. A well-renowned speaker from Miami called Mother Adela Galindo will deliver the keynote Rosary talk at 1 pm in the Basilica. Then there will be the Stations of the Cross outside at 2 pm, followed by the Rosary Procession. Bishop Phonsie Cullinan will be the Main Celebrant of the 3 pm Concelebrated Mass which will include Anointing of the Sick. Confessions are available throughout the day, and there will be rosary and scapular-making workshops in the marquee. For more information and to see a list of buses going from around Ireland please visit www.AllIrelandRosaryRally.com
ALONE the organisation that enables older people age at home are looking for Telephone and Visitation Volunteers to support older people in the community. Call 0801 222 024 or see ALONE.ie/Volunteer for more info.
RAMBLING HOUSE; Ita’s Rambling House at the Desmond Complex is on the 3rd. Friday each month. Knocalucka is on the 3rd. Tuesday of the month. Ballyhahill Hall on Wednesday May 15, at 8.00pm.
RALLY for Life Saturday 6th July at 2pm, at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square in Dublin.
HEALTH: A Free Health Awareness Event for Older People on Wednesday 15 May in the Rose Hotel, Tralee from 10 am to 2pm. Information talks from Geriatrician, Dietician, Pharmacist, Physiotherapists. For further information please call 066 7104830.
KNOCK: Our second Annual Pilgrimage to Knock will take place on Saturday 24th August 2024. While many families will travel by car it is hoped that many buses will travel and that each pastoral area will coordinate parishes locally. Our Lady of Knock, pray for us.
YOUTH Pilgrimage to Taize Sun. 23rd June to Sun. June 30th’24. Tomas Kenny 086-3683778 for more details and to book.
STORIES: ‘Sharing Good News’ Ezine
The Catholic Communications Office, Maynooth produces a five-story weekly ezine Sharing Good News that reports on stories associated with the Bishops’ Conference, activities in parishes and dioceses, and that celebrates Church life generally. If you wish to subscribe to receive Sharing Good News please register your email address on: https://catholicnews.ie/
VOCATIONS Afternoon at the Poor Clare Monastery, College Rd, Cork, for young women considering contemplative religious life, Sat. May 25th, 2-4 pm. Further information: www.poorclarescork.ie
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ARTS: Kerry County Arts Newsletter 9th May 2024. View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/
Kerry County Council Writer in Residence 2024 – Emer Fallon Call out to new and established writers across the county for the Writers on the Bus project. for a group, or one-to-one, session with Emer, email her directly at [email protected]
Call Out for Proposals for Culture Night Kerry Events
We are currently seeking applications for events for Culture Night, which is taking place this year on Friday 20th September. Deadline: 5pm, 4th June
More details (https://kerrycoco.us10.list-
Arts Council funding details here
More details (https://kerrycoco.us10.list-
Seeking applications from schools until 10th May.
More details (https://kerrycoco.us10.list-
The Department of Education – Creative Clusters. Each Creative Cluster will receive grant funding of €3,000 per school over a two-year period to implement their project in 2024–2026.
Open to Deaf and/or disabled artists with a passion for dance, choreography, or movement and with experience of leading an artistic process. Co-production support of between €15,000 and €40,000 for each project and the opportunity for public presentation at two or more partners’ venues, companies or festivals. Deadline: 19th May. More details (https://kerrycoco.us10.list-
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9 May, Europe Day, marks the presentation in 1950 of the ‘Schuman Declaration’ which led to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of today’s European Union.
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OPEN: Sceilg Mhichíl reopens for Visitor Season 2024- 10 May 2024; Office of Public Works; Press release;
NORTHERN Lights were visible over Ireland after the most powerful solar storm in more than 20 years on Friday night.
FREE WILL: Existentialist philosophers were very big on the idea of free will.
They believed that while circumstances could limit your choices, there were always choices to be made. Existentialists also argued that while many people make a show of loving freedom, most experience it as a dizzying burden and seek every opportunity to flee from it. To recognize the possibility of possibility, to countenance your personal accountability in every situation, to take radical responsibility for your life, is, in fact, a terrifying prospect.
Faced with this anxiety, people attempt to narrow the scope of their freedom, positing that they are bound by external circumstances to make certain choices; that in such and such a case, their hands are tied.
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RUSSIA celebrated Victory Day on Thursday last, the anniversary of the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II.
REFLECTION: Previous research supports their hypothesis. People who look at life from a positive perspective have a much better shot at avoiding death from any type of cardiovascular risk than pessimistic people, according to a 2019 study. In fact, the more positive the person, the greater the protection from heart attacks, stroke and any cause of death. It’s not just your heart that’s protected by a positive outlook. Prior research has found a direct link between optimism and other positive health attributes, such as healthier diet and exercise behaviours, a stronger immune system and better lung function, among others.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/
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TWO MEN FROM GLIN, Co. LIMERICK:
Constable James O’Brien and Eamonn Dore
The first casualty of the Easter Rising of 1916 was Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Constable James O’Brien, a native of Kilfergus, Glin, Co. Limerick. Constable O’Brien was guarding the main gate of Dublin Castle. At approximately 11:45AM on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, Sean Connolly led a group of Irish Citizen Army (ICA) to the gate and demanded entry. When O’Brien refused, Connolly shot and killed him. O’Brien, who was unarmed was aged 48 years. Ironically, Connolly was shot and killed less than an hour later on the roof of City Hall by a British sniper; becoming the first rebel to be killed in the Rising. Connolly was aged 32.
At this time, Eamonn Dore, from Main Street in Glin was a medical student at University College in Dublin. He was home in Glin for a holiday when he heard of the Rising in Dublin. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers. He was a close associate of Tom Clarke and Sean MacDiarmada. He then made his way to Dublin and the GPO. MacDiarmada ordered Dore to escort the Daly sisters, Clarke’s sisters-in-law to Kingsbridge Station. They were going to Cork and Limerick to spread the word that the Rising had begun. He escorted them safely, but saw the concentration of British soldiers in the area surrounding the GPO.
Dore came under fire, but made it safely to the GPO and reported the situation to Clarke, MacDiarmada, and James Connolly. Connolly didn’t believe Dore and went to check for himself, at which point he was wounded as a bullet shattered his ankle.
Dore had been part of an “escort” that brought James Connolly in January to meet the members of the IRB to which Connolly did not belong at that time in circumstances that are still mysterious. Dore later said Connolly came of his own accord, but other statements say otherwise. This is pure speculation on my part as to why Connolly might have distrusted Dore. Click on the link for our article on Connolly’s disappearance for more information.
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As Easter week went on, Dore said of his comrades in the GPO: “They were all standing there as if nothing was wrong. The whole place was on fire, the shelling was still going on, the heat was intense. Here were these fellas waiting for further instructions.” Dore was chosen to go out in the charge led by The O’Rahilly, who hailed from Ballylongford, North Kerry; only a few miles from Glin. The O’Rahilly and several volunteers were killed in the charge. Dore and several others found shelter in a nearby yard. They remained there until the surrender. Dore was interned in Frongoch Camp in Wales.
Dore may not have been aware that Joseph Plunkett’s strategy as presented to the Germans involved the Germans occupying Limerick City and mining the river Shannon from Tarbert, Co. Kerry, (adjacent to Glin) to Foynes, Co. Limerick. Hence, Glin would have had a part to play in the initial planning of The Easter Rising.
Dore was released in January 1917. In 1918, he married Nora Daly, whom he had escorted to Kingsbridge Station. During the War of Independence, he was an IRA Intelligence Officer. After the war, he ran the Daly family bakery in Limerick City until it closed in 1959. He died in 1972. He is buried in Kilfergus cemetery in Glin, as is Constable O’ Brien.
In 2016, Dore’s daughter Mairéad was in attendance at the dedication of Centenary Bridge in Glin commemorating O’Brien and Dore; two men from Glin, Co. Limerick whose lives were affected as they found themselves on different sides of the Rising in faraway Dublin.
By Kevin Rooney
with acknowledgement to Norma Prendiville who wrote a similar article first.
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IRISH in Australia; https://tintean.org.au/2024/
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WETLANDS: Video link
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PEN PAL: The letters are going to some special people. The students are writing to the retired Daughters of Charity Sisters who live in Albany.
For Dalia Calandrella, a second grader at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy, she has a lot in common with her pen pal, Sister Mary Irene.
“She loves going to the beach and swimming and reading, and so do I,” Calandrella said.
The assistant principal of the Queens school, Sister Donna Smith, was at the nuns’ nursing home facility during the pandemic and witnessed how difficult and lonely that time was for the mostly senior sisters.
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The FAST program will enable Grade 11 and 12 students to engage in apprenticeships by allowing them to take up to 80% of their senior courses through co-operative education. The program will begin in September 2025, allowing students to access apprenticeships from 144 different trades.
Students currently take one to two Ontario Youth Apprenticeship courses. The change will allow students to take eight to eleven.
https://tnc.news/2024/05/02/
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EVENT: When I am attending a public event, can the organisers take promotional photographs of me without my consent? ——————————
In practical terms, at large events it is advisable to have written notices in place advising attendees of the intention to take photos, the purpose of taking the photo and the intended use of the image. At smaller events it is advisable to seek the consent of those attending either in written form or by introducing a method of identifying consent from those whose photographs may be taken, for example, at a conference, green lanyards could be given to those who consent to their photo being taken during the course of the conference, and red lanyards to those who do not consent.
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CANON HAYES: The extraordinary life of Irish priest John Martin Hayes
Canon John Martin Hayes was the founder of Muintir na Tíre and the parish priest of Bansha & Kilmoyler in County Tipperary.
Martin Quinn- Contributor @IrishCentral, Feb 16, 2024
Canon John Hayes, Founder of Muintir na Tíre.
Around this time 64 years ago, the death took place of Canon John Hayes, the founder of Muintir na Tíre and the Parish Priest of Bansha & Kilmoyler, County Tipperary.
His death at a Tipperary Nursing Home on January 30th, 1957,
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