Successes

Ballybunion in May 2025

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On Top of the World

Killian and his friends climbed Carrauntuathail on a sunny day in May 2025.

Ballincollig lads on the summit, Killian, Riain, Sorin and Callum

A photo Killian sent on his way up.

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Congratulations

What an achievement for Billy Alexander and all the wonderful crew at Kells Bay, a third gold at the Chelsea Flower Show.

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Listowel Writers’ Week 2025..Listowel Literary Festival

Opening night is tomorrow night. There is a great programme planned for the week.

Here is a new venture involving the local community… Your chance to be part of the story.

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Clarification

An eagle eyed reader spotted yesterday that Fr. Antony Gaughan in this extract from his Listowel and its Vicinity refers to the street we know as Church Street as Ashe Street.

We have been down this road on Listowel Connection before. A quick recap is all I’m going to give here. A burst of republican fervour at one time in Listowel lead to requests to change the street names to commemorate Irish patriots. That campaign failed. Changing street names poses a huge problem for businesses with several issues, some of them fairly costly as well as inconvenient, of changing their business address on all printed and other documents, on bank accounts and invoicing accounts with suppliers etc.

Anyway the issue was eventually resolved by a compromise which saw the Irish version of the street names commemorating the dead republicans and the English version left unchanged. The above sign is an example.

Some people, unhappy with this solution, went on to call Church Street Ashe Street. Fr. Antony Gaughan, it would appear, was one of these.

Probably the best example today is Patrick Street which is in fact Upper William Street. There is no Patrick Street in Listowel.

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Progress at Lidl

This is where Dowd’s house used to be.

The present Lidl store on the left will be demolished.

The store was busy yesterday. Monday is always busy with the “specials’.

This big lorry arrived to the site while I was photographing.

We are going to get a brand new store, just like the Tralee one and the bigger carpark will be where the shop is now.

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A Fact

In 1310 shoes were made for the left and right feet for the first time.

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