by Jer Kennelly
February. Envelopes can be purchased at – Amber Oil Listowel,
Knockanure National School, Jim Gould Shop, Stylepost hair salon,
Holly’s Gala Moyvane, Speedy’s bar, Jumbo’s Family Restaurant, Mag’s
Deli Listowel and Flynns Bar Knockanure.PARISH: Blessed Candles are available to purchase throughout the year
in the Parish Office.
Concert tickets/Raffle tickets are still available in the Parish
Office for the Michael English Concert on Sunday March 23rd at 8pm.
Doors open 7pm.
If you wish Fr. Brendan to bring Holy Communion to someone at home
please ring the Parish Office or Fr. Brendan, to be added to the list.
GAA: North Kerry Intermediate Cup Final – Moyvane 01-13- Emmets 01-02.
Coiste na nOg registration now open, please register before 28th of Feb.
PILGRIMAGE to Rome led by Bishop Ray will take place from 19th to 23rd
May 2025. For more details, please ring Nora – 087 9318976
ICA Moyvane, Margaret Gilbert, Life Coach, will attend the Marian Hall
on Tue 18th February at 7:30pm. Margaret has 25 years’ experience
supporting individuals and families to improve quality of life. All
are welcome!
EXERCISE Classes with Conor O’Neill starting back again on Monday 10th
February, 1:30pm-2:30pm. Everyone is welcome to join in the class!
VOLUNTEERS: We are looking for volunteers to form a committee – and
provide support on the day – to host ‘Darkness into light’ in Moyvane
on 10th May. If interested, please contact a member of Moyvane
Development Association or Pat Kissane on 087 9064091.
SCOR: Anyone interested in taking part in Scór na bpáistí/Senior scór
Moyvane GAA please contact scór officers Laura 087-1163040/Lisa
086-0537310.
BEST WISHES to the Yershovy Sisters from Ukraine and now living in
Knockanure who have made it to the final on Réalta agus Gaolta which
was hosted by TG4 on Sunday night 9th February.
DEATH of John McAuliffe (Daly), Howth Road, Clontarf, / Athea. Former
C.I.E and N.B.U
On February 8, 2025, in his 99th year, surrounded by his family
Noreen, Aisling and Seán. He will be missed by his family, Nick, Jack,
George and Bobby, Frank and Paddy. Predeceased by his children Orla,
Mary, Margaret and Anthony.
ANNIVERSARIES: Johanna Dell, Paudeen Moloney, Bridie Moloney,
Philomena O Connor, Dorothy O Sullivan, Sr. Baptist Kirby, Sr. Finian
Hearney, Anna Mai Hanrahan, Sean Goulding, Patrick J Flavin, Eileen
Kennelly, Breda Woulfe, Eileen McGrath, Ella Corridon.
MASS INTENTIONS: Sat. 15th Feb.’25- Moyvane, 1.James Fitzmaurice
(Aniv.) Sutton, Dublin & Leitrim Middle. 2.Sr. Augustine O’Connor (1st
Aniv.) Inchamore at 7.30pm; Sun. 16th Feb.’25 Knockanure for Billy
Leahy (Aniv.) at 9.30am, and mass Moyvane a Private Intention at 11am;
Tues. 18th Feb.’25- Moyvane a Private Intention at 7pm
Wed. 19th Feb.’25 Knockanure for Tom & Nellie O’Connor & son Con Glin
Rd. & Birmingham (Aniv.’s) at 7pm; Thurs.20th Feb.’25 Moyvane for
Bridie & Michael Moloney (Aniv.’s) Leitrim Middle at 7pm; Fri.21st
Feb.’25- Mass Knockanure a Private Intention at 7pm; Sat. 22nd
Feb.’25 Moyvane a Private Intention at 7.30pm; Sun. 23rd Feb.’25
Knockanure a Private Intention at 9.30am, and Mass Moyvane for Henry &
Bridie Stackpoole & deceased of Stackpoole & Meade families at 11am.
DIVINE Mercy National Conference 2025, begins at the RDS on Friday 21st.
GAA Knockanure Lotto Results for 28th of January; Jackpot was €2,300.
Numbers Drawn: 31, 21, 11, and 27. No winner but lucky dips went to:
1. Peg Collins, Ploughman Bar; 2. Eileen Leahy, Trien; 3. Noreen
Healy, c/o N Stackpoole; 4. S Fitzgerald, c/o Tom Fitzgerald, and 5.
Brian Leahy, c/o Willie Joe Leahy
February 4th Results – Jackpot was €2,400. Numbers Drawn: 7, 9, 17,
and 25; No winner but lucky dips went to: 1. J and M Harley, c/o John
Barry ; 2. Antoinette O Shea, Knockanure; 3. Ian Madden, Abbeyfeale;
4. The 2 Js, The New Kingdom Bar, and 5. Jim Greaney, Kilmorna
Lotto Results from Tuesday February 11th, Jackpot was €2,500. Numbers
Drawn: 6, 7, 13, and 17. No winner but lucky dips went to: 1. Kathleen
Carmody, Kilmorna; 2. Kat Kennelly, Knockanure; 3. Norella Molyneaux,
K/nure; 4. Charlie and Alfie, c/o B O’Carroll, and 5. Margaret
Dowling, Duagh. The next draw will take place on Tuesday February 18th
in the Clubhouse, all are welcome. Jackpot will be €2,600.
TARBERT ACTIVE RETIREMENT GROUP – (over 55’s) meet in Tarbert
Bridewell every Friday between 10.30am and 12 Noon. We have different
activities every week followed by refreshments. New Members are
welcome.
AGM of Tarbert Historical Society will be held on Friday 21st of Feb
at 8pm, historical talk will also be held on the night.
LIFEGUARD Positions 2025: Limerick City and County Council invite
applications from suitably qualified people for the following
position: Temporary Lifeguard – Glin & Kilteery Piers – Summer 2025
The Application Form and Briefing Document are available from
https://www.limerick.ie/counci
[email protected] or 061 557160 The closing date for receipt of
applications is Monday, 3rd March 2025. Limerick City and County
Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
PLAY at Glórach Theatre on Tuesday, February 18th, with further
performances on February 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 27th and March 1st
and 2nd, at 8 pm each night and booking is at 0871383940.
ATHEA: “Sharon’s Grave” Bookings for this production by Athea Drama
Group are now open. It will be staged in Con Colbert Memorial Hall on
February 27th. March 2nd. 6th. 8th. & 9th at 8pm. Bookings via
Text/Whatsapp, 087 6926746.
ST JOHNS: Donal’s Stack’s exhibition, North Kerry Treasure, will
continue to be in place until Friday 28th February. St. John’s is open
Monday to Friday and from 10am to 5pm. Sat 22nd Traditional with-
Derek Hickey, Liz and Yvonne Kane and MacDara O Faolain; Sunday 23rd –
Concert- The Devil’s Spine Band Honor Heffernan and Trevor Night;
Friday 28th Storytelling with Francis Kennedy & Sonny Egan, details
from 068 22566.
BEAUTY Queen of Leenan at Knocknagoshel on 21st, 22nd and 23rd of Feb.
RAMBLING House; Listowel on last Thursday of the month and Knockanure
on the first Thursday of the month. Clounmacon on the second Friday of
the month. Ita’s Rambling House at the Desmond Complex is on the 3rd.
Friday each month. Knocalucka is on the 3rd. Tuesday of the month.
Josie’s Brosna 2nd Thursday of the month. Ballyhahill 3rd Wednesday
in the Community Centre. John Barrett’s Bar, Glin 4th Tuesday.
Tarbert last Saturday of the month at the Community Centre.
THE ARD CHÚRAM COMMUNITY CHOIR is back join us on Thursdays at 1
o’clock – in the Ard Chúram Fuchsia Centre, Greenville, Listowel.
Enquiries to 068 22986 or 086 6095722.
VACANCY FOR A PART TIME SACRISTAN IN DUAGH CHURCH
We invite applicants that might be interested in being a part time
Sacristan at Duagh Church. This very important role in our Church is
very necessary and could be done by one person or shared by a number
of people. For further details and information please contact: Fr.
Declan at Listowel Parish Office 068-21188 or email:
[email protected] by Tuesday, 25th February 2025.
800 YEARS: The Bishop of Ossory is honouring a significant milestone
in Kilkenny’s history – the celebration of the Dominican Order’s 800
years of ministry in the city. Saint Dominic, born circa 1170AD in
Spain.
https://clericalwhispers.blogs
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TRIBUTE: Stan McCarthy, the Ryanair Chairman and former CEO Kerry
Group Plc, is the Kerry Association of New York, Kerry Person of the
Year 2025. Annual dinner is on Friday, March 21, in New York.
LIFE Membership: The Irish Farmers’ Association was founded as the
NFA, 70 years ago on January 6th 1955.Recently, Richard Harnett, (born
Moyvane) Johnnie Roche and Tom Herlihy were honoured by the IFA with
honorary life memberships.
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HUNTBALL: The North Kerry Harriers Huntball will take place at the The
Listowel Arms Hotel on Saturday the 22nd of February 2025 at 6pm .
TINTEAN Ballybunion will have Shania and Friends on Friday March 7th.
SUSTAINABLE Day will be held at Tintean on Sunday 23rd of Feb., from
10.30 to 4.30pm.
GROTTO: Celebrating the building of Our Lady’s Grotto, Ballylongford,
in 1954 and blessed on the 12th December 1954. 70 years ago. On Monday
13th of May Fr. Hussey said Mass at the grotto. On Friday 24th of May
Michael Finucane organised telling the history of the grotto with his
friends. Would like to thanks Angela Nolan for sending me on this
video.
https://youtu.be/MAI46yXz660?f
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DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO ROME: The Diocese of Limerick is running a
Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to Rome from March 20 -26, 2025. Bishop Leahy
will lead the pilgrimage. For further details contact MYRIAM TOURS on
057 –9355050.
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER: Restore, Renew, Rekindle. Enrichment Weekend
Friday 28-30 March in Knock, Co. Mayo.
CONCERT by Three Tenors: https://vimeo.com/246131871
ART; County Exchange international residency – Interested applicants
should submit a 100-word statement of purpose, contact details, a
brief bio, and links to previous work by email to
[email protected] by Monday, February 24th, 2025, at midnight.
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WRITERS’; Kerry Writers’ Museum- Writers, storytellers and historians
are invited to submit blog posts on topics such as the influence of
Kerry’s landscape, reflections on literary traditions, insights into
their creative processes and local history & folklore. If you are
interested in contributing please contact our events coordinator at
kerrywritersmuseumevents@gmail
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REFLECTION: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest
act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
ART Competition; Texaco Children’s Art Competition closing date Friday
28th of February.
DYSLEXIA Dyslexia Hub Ireland. A Learning Website for Dyslexia in Ireland
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SCAM: The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
and the National Cyber Security Centre said it is aware of scam text
messages in circulation purporting to come from ESB Networks. Users
should exercise caution when receiving messages from unknown numbers.
BUS to Belfast for Cataracts, Hips and knee, procedures, contact,
Danny at 087 2316 055.
SPRING BREAK APRIL 7 -10: Based in the Great Northern 4 hotel with
complimentary use of the leisure Centre. B&B and four course choice of
menu dinner each evening. We intend going to Derry to visit the Walls
of Derry and places of interest. We also hope to visit the grave of
Blessed Clare Crockett RIP the young girl who gave up stardom acting
and a career in Television to become a nun working in Ecuador and who
at the young age of 33 was killed in an earthquake while teaching
children music. On the other two days we will be at different
locations. Every evening after dinner we will go to the Atlantic
Ballroom for dancing and great entertainment i.e. Garry Gamble aka
Daniel O Double, John Glenn and last but not least Frankie and Marion.
For more information and bookings contact Maureen 087 98 45 102.
TRALEE Bay Wetlands have a number of events in February to mark World
Wetlands Month. A guided Bay Walk is on February 23rd.
SENIOR LINE: Would you like someone to talk to? Senior Line is
Ireland’s national telephone service for older people open every day
of the year 10am-10pm, Freephone 1800 80 4591.
FEAST of St. Fintan of Clonenagh in Co. Laois is celebrated on Monday
17th February. The famous Irish manuscript, the Book of Leinster, now
in Trinity College, which places Fintan in second place in importance
to St. Brigid may well have been completed at Clonenagh.
Feast of St. Peter’s Chair is celebrated on Saturday 23rd February.
Today we pray especially for Pope Francis, the successor of St. Peter
as Bishop of Rome.
INFORMATION: Invitation To Attend, “Ireland, Abortion and Advocating
for Life in 2025” Hosted by the Pro Life Campaign. March 3rd
7.30pm-8.30pm. Online free information event, register at
prolifecampaign.ie/events
VINTAGE: Knockdown Vintage are holding their Annual Vintage Charity
Run on 30th March 2025 in Knockdown Arms, Athea. This year our two
worthy beneficiaries are: Cystic Fibrosis Ireland and the Little Blue
Heroe’s. For further information contact Margaret Culhane on 087 230
3918, Carol Noonan on 087 653 5029 and Mairead Langan on 087 640 7026.
OPEN day at Kerry College Listowel on 27th of Feb.
MART Listowel, Eddie Flaherty from Moyvane got £4,500 at a recent in
calf heifer sale.
CHELTENHAM Preview Night in Aid of Kerry Parents and Friends at
Christys Bar, Listowel on March 3rd.
GRANTS: Built Heritage Investment Scheme (BHIS) 2025, 34 projects in
Kerry, with €236,458 going projects.
BUILDING Houses are being delayed by regulations that were designed by
pen pushers, who are interested in keeping their jobs, by causing
delays, according to builders.
LOURDES: Records have been kept from the exchanges between Bernadette
and our Blessed Mother. Here are five of the most fascinating facts
about the apparitions that took place at the grotto:
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VOCATIONS Afternoon at the Poor Clare Monastery, College Road, Cork,
for young women considering the contemplative religious life, Saturday
Feb. 22nd, 2- 4 pm. For further info. email
vocationspoorclarescork@gmail.
RETREAT: Ignatian Directed Retreats’ Summer 2025. The Advisory group
for An Teach Spioradálta, FCJ Spirituality House have worked hard to
create a wonderful summer series for you to choose from. We are
delighted to be able to offer four six-day directed retreats in May
and June this year, with several more options from September on.
https://fcjspiritualityhouse.i
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LENT: Prepare to celebrate Lent at parishes Masses with our diocesan
workshop on Wednesday Feb 19th from 7.30 pm – 8.30pm online.
https://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/
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ALONE are seeking volunteers in the ATHEA area. Full training and
support provided. If interested, please contact Caroline on
086-4040910 or apply via the ALONE website at www.alone.ie or for
further information please contact Aoife Dennehy on 086-0120221 or via
email [email protected]
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BRIDGE: Tralee International Bridge Congress at The Rose Hotel from
April 4-6, more details and registration, visit www.BridgeIreland.com
or contact [email protected].
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WOODLAND: Farmers are teaming up the National Trust to create hundreds
of acres of woodland to boost native songbirds, wildlife and farming.
The trust is supporting some of its tenant farmers in Purbeck through
a government-funded nature-friendly farming programme.
The scheme plans to establish 380 hectares (940 acres) of
wildlife-rich habitat across the district. Farmers will be planting
60,000 trees and shrubs over the next six years, to create wood
pasture for nesting, roosting and foraging sites birds can use.
The National Trust hopes the initiative will help birds like the
yellowhammer, linnet and goldfinch, as well as rare turtle doves and
nightingales.
https://www.bbc.com/news/artic
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RALLY: The 2025 Rose Hotel Circuit of Kerry Stages Rally is on March
30, marking the 50th anniversary of the rally.
WANDER Wild Festival Killarney 4th – 6th April 2025.
https://wanderwildfestival.com
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DOCTOR 2025: Dr. Howard Tucker is 102 years old, but he’s not slowing
down. The Jewish neurologist is still working, and just a few years
ago, Guinness World Records named him the world’s oldest practicing
doctor.
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GENERATORS: Minister Heydon advised that farmers may apply for
generators under the Dairy Equipment Scheme (DES), Organic Investment
Scheme (OCIS), Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme (YFCIS), and
the Women Farmers Capital Investment Scheme (WFCIS).
The minister added that there is no requirement for farmers to be
milking cows in order to be eligible for a backup PTO generator.
https://www.agriland.ie/farmin
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SOLAR: Westmill Solar Park, UK
This community-owned solar farm, located close to the
Wiltshire/Oxfordshire border, contains over 20,000 PV panels across 30
acres of land, and generates enough electricity to power 1,600 homes.
According to its founders, it is believed to be the UK’s first and
world’s largest cooperatively run, community-owned solar farm.
https://www.countryliving.com/
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LISTS AND UNEARNED INCOMES of being rich.
“Viscount Ennismore, the 22-year-old son of the Earl of Listowel, is
an earnest young Socialist who is seeking to apply his idealism to his
personal life.
Recently he decided to give up his title and asked his friends to call
him Mr. W. F. Hare. Now he has decided to surrender unearned income
and renounce his fortune. He proposes to live on $20.00 a week whilst
studying in London for a philosophy degree. Apparently he has
discovered others who have his views, for he has founded a friendly
society, to be known as Neighbours, Ltd., to enable wealthy people to
The weekly incomes of the members will devote their fortunes to social
purposes, be limited to $20.00 for single men or women, $30.00 for
married men and $2.00 for each dependent child. The problem which Mr.
Hare is facing is a very real one for many rich Socialists, and we
shall watch his experiment with interest. May we suggest to him and
his friends that the best expenditures of unearned incomes which they
feel Capitalism has wrongfully provided would be to devote it to
Socialistic propaganda and organization?”
https://indianamemory.contentd
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THE KNICKERBOCKER NEWS
PAGE 3-A. ALBANY. N. Y.. JULY 23. 1971
The chief justice of the United States answering his doorbell with a
gun somehow typifies for us the law-and-order issue in America today.
It goes right down from Justice Burger to the mother cowering behind
her door in the city ghetto. This nation is scared. “Gun control is at
the top of every poll you see.” Senator Kennedy said the other day.
“It’s at the top of every housewife’s fears who walks the streets of
the city of Boston, and people are absolutely terrified.”
FORMER NEW HAVEN Police Chief Ahern, a member of the Scranton
Commission, said recently. “Not only blacks. Puerto Ricans. Chicanos
and young people but even governors and congressmen believe their
privacy is being violated, their telephone conversations monitored and
their daily activities observed.”
And Milton Eisenhower himself, who headed the commission investigating
violence, declared here last month, “There are literally arsenals
being built by the extreme right and the extreme left, not only with
normal guns but with
every type of weapon. And if we saw trouble break out in this country
it could be devastating.”
The crime issue is the cutting edge of America’s social unrest. It is
the painful symptom that finally sends the man suffering from cancer
to the doctor. America ought to do something about law and order
quick; unfortunately, the
Nixon approach has too often been wrong-headed, cynical or even hypocritical.
(Police Chief Ahern had he an Athea connection)
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BP: In 2024, bp delivered operating cash flow of $27.3 billion. During
the year, we introduced our target to deliver at least $2billion of
savings(a) by the end of 2026 relative to 2023 and are making strong
progress, achieving $0.8 billion of structural cost reduction*. We
raised the dividend per ordinary share by 10% and delivered $7 billion
of share buybacks. Our focus on capital discipline and strengthening
the balance sheet continues into 2025.” Kate Thomson
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About Kerry Social Farming
Established in 2013 and operating social farms since 2014, Kerry
Social Farming (KSF) was founded on principles of equality, social
inclusion, voluntary community development and collaboration. It is
currently one of two projects operating the voluntary model of social
farming in Ireland, in that farmers are not paid for their time with
participants. It is a locally-led, community-based, shared service
that provides farming and social inclusion opportunities to people
with physical and intellectual disabilities, acquired brain injuries
http://www.kerrysocialfarming.
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ST BRIGID: In 2024, Philip Freeman, a Latin and Early Medieval
scholar, who holds the Fletcher Jones Chair at Pepperdine University,
published his translation of two of the hagiographic stories of
Brigid’s life. There are a variety of spellings for her name: Brigid,
Brigit, Bridget and several diminutives or sobriquets: Brida, Bree,
Bridie, Bride, and the translations into Nordic such as Brigetta (or
Brigitta) and Brigida. Philip Freeman has used Brigid in his 2024
translations: Two Lives of Saint Brigid, so this article will proceed
with this spelling.
https://tintean.org.au/2025/02
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FAMILY: February marks the month of the Holy Family. The Shrine of Our
Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, faithful to the message of
the Blessed Virgin Mary through her appearances on the American
continent in 1531, serves the spiritual needs of those who suffer
poverty in body and soul
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AWARDS: Applications for the Environmental Sustainability Awards 2025
are now open. The awards aim to help farmers, consumers, and Irish
citizens to be proud of the great work undertaken on Irish farms.
https://www.agriland.ie/farmin
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CANCER: Report Reveals That Three Common Building Materials Are Now on
the Cancer List
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The other insulation product, Styrofoam, or bead board made from
styrene, also used in pipes and carpet backing, can off-gas and cause
cancer according to limited studies. Because the material is gaining
much attention as we are making homes with higher insulation levels,
those who work with the material on a regular basis are the most at
risk.
While the use of these two materials for building will probably remain
common, the best way to make sure they do not affect our indoor air
quality is toseal interiors properly and mechanically ventilate
buildings sufficiently. The added bonus is an environment clear of
other pollutants and a much lower energy bill. In the meantime there
are still thousands of chemicals we are exposed to that have not even
been tested for their health effects.
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ACCORD: Every individual is unique and therefore so is every
relationship. Consequently we do not tell clients how to live their
lives but rather assist them to develop the solutions that work best
for them. Whether you are single, married, cohabiting, separated or
divorced, whether you are experiencing challenges in your
relationships or family life or are making plans to achieve your hopes
and dreams for the future, Accord counsellors will listen attentively
and support you with unconditional positive regard, empathy,
compassion and care. https://accorddublin.ie/
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AGE Friendly Ireland Shared Service supports cities, counties and
towns across Ireland to prepare for the rapid ageing of our population
by paying increased attention to the environmental, economic and
social factors that influence the health and well-being of older
adults. Local Age-friendly programmes work to provide walkable
streets, housing and transportation options, access to key services
and opportunities for older people to participate in community
activities. https://agefriendlyireland.ie/
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HEALTHY Athea – Good to go returned on Friday the 7th February running
for 6 weeks, 10:30am to 12:00 mid-day.
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KILLARNEY NATIONAL PARK FREE GUIDED WALK WEDNESDAY 19TH OF FEBRUARY;
Join us for a guided walk around Knockreer, where we will chat about
the flora, fauna and history of the landscape. The walk will start at
the Kings Bridge (opposite St Mary’s Cathedral) at 10.30am and will
finish around 12pm. The walk will be along tracks and woodland trails
and would not be suitable for buggies. Please wear strong shoes or
boots and bring weather gear in case the weather turns. Places are
limited, so you will need to book by ringing or texting 087178369
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WATCH Heart of a Servant: The Fr. Flanagan Story on Amazon Prime
https://www.amazon.com/Heart-S
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