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Phew! I survived Listowel Writers Week 2017

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On June 6, 2017

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That’s me risking life an limb up on a ledge taking photographs during one of the many great events during Listowel Writers Week that I covered for you. Jer Kennelly took the photo.

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What a weekend!


Whit weekend for Listowel people and visitors was hectic. Here are a few snaps of what was going on.

On the racecourse Eilish Stack was organising her marvellously successful Ladies day. The winner is second from left.   (photo: John Kelliher)

These four ladies were in Dublin to participate in the Ladies mini marathon.

This is EPA Conor Murray, the next Sonny Bill from my family’s stable in Kanturk. He participated in his first show at the weekend and despite his inexperience and “greenness” he came fifth. Hopes are very high for this one…cautiously optimistic is the term.

 Look where I was, half in half out of my hi vis steward’s vest posing with the star attraction, Graham Norton before his show in Listowel Community Centre. (photo: Máire Logue)


Look closely and you will spot me and Clíona in the front row at Sophie Hannah in The Listowel Arms on Sunday.   (photo: Ger Holland)

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Opening Night LWW 2017


I’ll start at the beginning with some photos from opening night May 31 2017

Above is just a small selection of the varied people who attended the first night.

Last of my photographs of Graham Norton’s audience and some novel fundraisers this summer.

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On July 1, 2015

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Audience Makes its way to Graham Norton Gig, Writers’ Week 2015

As the evening wore on, the rain got heavier and heavier but, as you can see, it failed to dampen the good spirits of the audience. It was a Listowel night to remember.

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Bill and Hillary, then and now




Two photos from the internet of the Clintons, one taken in their student days and the other taken last week as Hillary begins her campaign for the White House.

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Charity Begins at Home




Elizabeth Brosnan took this photo in Knockanure. The pink silage wrap is an initiative by Dairygold to raise awareness of breast cancer. They give a small donation to a breast cancer charity for every bale of pink wrap bought.

Photo: Dairygold website

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Jim Quinlan in Ballybunion taking part in The Big Blue Box challenge

Read all about this St. Vincent de Paul in association with Bank of Ireland event HERE

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Meanwhile in Tralee

Tralee Rotary Club member, our own Graham Borley, organized a Poker Run on Sunday June 28.

What is a Poker Run?

Answer: Bikers (in this case motorcyclists) travel to five different locations. At each stop, each biker cuts the deck of cards and gets a card. At the end of the run each biker is holding five cards and the person with the best poker hand wins.

It was all good fun and the money raised all went to a great charity,  World Water Works for the purchase of Water Survival Boxes. These boxes with vital supplies are shipped to disaster zones by the charity. Each box contains enough to keep a family of 4 going for 4 months. The boxes are distributed in conjunction with agencies like Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children.

People at Graham Norton, Fr. Pat Moore and Berkeley tragedy

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On June 18, 2015

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People with the Golden Ticket

These happy people were photographed wending their way to Listowel Community Centre for Graham Norton’s Listowel appearance, with spirits undampened by the unseasonal weather. Happy days!

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Fr. Pat Moore’s poem for his mother



Less than a year ago Fr. Pat lost his beloved mother, Peg. As part of her memorial he wrote a poem for her. I reprint it here to keep him in your thoughts and prayers as he recovers from his surgery.

This Much I Will Remember   _______ for Peg

It was a bright August morning, sunlight filled the kitchen.

I sat next to you remembering my birth.

Your heartbeat the first sound I heard.

A home you made around us, people you are now welcoming,

Alive and some dead.

And as I look past your shoulder at the glass on the windowsill,

That captures the sunlight inside the garden you once tended,

Which also drinks in the light.

Everything I see converges into a random still light,

Fastened together by colour.

It is fixed behind the foreground of what’s happening around you

As you are now being looked after.

And I can feel it being painted within me,

And brushed on the wall of my skull.

Then all the moments of the past begin to line up behind that moment,

And all the moments to come assemble in front of it in a long long row.

It gives me reason to believe that this is a ,moment I have rescued

from the millions that rush out of sight

into the darkness behind the eyes.

When I forget I will still carry in my skull

the small coin of this moment

Minted in the kingdom that we pace through everyday.

Hopefully these remembered moments are giving comfort to Fr. Pat as he goes through a part of life’s journey he will probably want to forget.

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Berkeley, June 16 2015




(photo;Internet)

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha dílse

Graham Norton Audience; St. Mary’s and the seaside in summer

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On June 17, 2015

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 Some More People who saw Graham Norton

Here are some more memories of a happy Saturday evening in May 2015

The smudge in the centre of many of these photos is a raindrop on my lens.

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Things you may not have noticed in St. Mary’s

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Ballybunion (photos by John Kelliher)




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Castlegregory




Fishermen at sunset photographed by Brenda Enright

People at Graham Norton at Writers’ Week 2015 and images of a back lane in Listowel

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On June 16, 2015

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Kissing Gates; the old and the new

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People at Graham Norton’s event at Listowel Writers’ Week 2015


As part of my Writers’ Week duties I was put on the gate at The Town Park for the Graham Norton Event. As always I had my camera in my little mitt and I snapped away as the audience ignored the downpour to troop into the Community Centre for the hottest ticket in town. Here are some of the people who were organized enough or lucky enough to have tickets.

Did you spot all the happy faces, despite the fact that it was raining cats and dogs?  In this first tranche of photos from the night you will notice a few of my fellow Writers’ Week committee members making their way to work at the venue. It was a case of all hands on deck on the night, and I think we played a blinder. It all went off oh so smoothly.

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Feale Sculpture



In The Square, Listowel

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Listowel Back Lanes


from the door of Listowel Garden Centre
Behind Church St.
old loft door



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Who is that in the photograph with Maria Stack?


(photo: Facebook)



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They are holding a MidSummer Fest in Cork


(Photos: Minihan’s Chemist)

This is Oliver Plunkett Street on Sunday where the Our Table event was a great success.

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