This blog is a personal take on Listowel, Co. Kerry. I am writing for anyone anywhere with a Listowel connection but especially for sons and daughters of Listowel who find themselves far from home. Contact me at listowelconnection@gmail.com

Tag: Daffodil Day 2025

Everywhere looks better with Flowers

Listowel Town Square , Spring 2025

Lovely Heaney Poem making an apprearance on Mothers’ Day

Cora Update

Firstly, let me say a big thank you to everyone who enquired about Cora and her MCL injury.

She is doing well. The tear doesn’t need surgery. The hope is that with a dilligent adherence to her physiotherapy routine she will be back on her feet in 6 weeks.

I am very impressed with her two football teams who are including her in everything. While it’s hard to watch everyone else playing, it is heartwarming to be included even when you can’t make a contribution.

Here are Ciara and Cora on Saturday March 29th. The team won that one anyway.

They included Cora in the squad photo, far left, back row.

At the club award ceremony at the weekend, Cora got to celebrate last season’s success with her friends.

Yarn Bombing

Tralee wool shop window

A Fact

Danish pastries originated in Austria.

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The Best of us and the Worst of us

Beautiful Ballybunion in March 2025

Comhghairdeas

Could they be more Irish than the Irish themselves? The enormously talented musicians, Yershovy Sisters, last night were crowned winners of the TG4 Réalta agus Gaolta. Ukraine’s loss, our gain.

The Famine in Listowel

John Pierse included these extracts from the schools folklore collection in his book, Teampall Bán.

Emigration is Hard on Everyone

In an Unkind World

St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2025

A few I took on Church Street

Daffodil Day 2025

A few of the hard working committee in the very poorly lit Mermaids. Some beautiful blooms donated for Daffodil Day.

A Fact

Irish magpies are suffering similar problems to Irish humans. Lack of houses, or, in the magpies’ case, nesting sites, mean that up to 50% of magpies don’t breed.

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