Listowel’s ball alley in October 2024

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This week in Listowel Family Resource Centre

As promised, Sheilagh at the family resource centre has kept us informed about activities at this marvellous local meeting place.

If you have any questions about any of these activities, call 06823584

The centre is located on the John B. Keane Road

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A Cosmopolitan Corner of Tralee

I took the following photos without moving from my spot at the traffic lights by Guiney’s in Tralee. What strange neighbours, Peig Sayers, Neil Armstrong and an Italian Irish restaurant.

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A Hall in Kanturk

This very popular community hall in Kanturk is often referred to locally as The Temperance Hall. It is now looked after by the Community Council. I don’t know about its origins in the temperance movement but as a trade union hall it played an important role in social and political affairs in the town.

I had never heard of the All for Ireland League so I looked it up.

The All-for-Ireland League (AFIL) was an Irish, Munster-based political party (1909–1918). Founded by William O’Brien MP, it generated a new national movement to achieve agreement between the different parties concerned on the historically difficult aim of Home Rule for the whole of Ireland. The AFIL established itself as a separate non-sectarian party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, binding a group of independent nationalists MPs to pursue a broader concept of Irish nationalism, a consensus of political brotherhood and reconciliation among all Irishmen, primarily to win Unionist consent to an All-Ireland parliamentary settlement.

This is just the introduction to a very interesting article in Wikipedia.

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Another Gold Medal

In Croke Park for the announcement of the winners of the National Tidy Towns Competition were Breda, Mary, Julie and Jimmy representing Listowel. Listowel achieved another gold medal and increased its overall mark by 11 points. well done everyone.

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Listowel Food Fair

Promoting the annual Food Fair at Garvey’s Super Valu on Saturday last.

All the information is here; Listowel Food Fair 2024

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Some More Hospice Morning Photos

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A fact

Michelangelo finished painting the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel on October 31 1541.

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