Row row row your boat on a shoe string budget
By Michael O'Brien
On returning home one weekend quite recently I could see from the bridge in Fermoy the clear bank of the river right up...
Closed season with Glenda Powell
Former Women’s World Champion fly fisherwoman and fly-casting instructor Glenda Powell, who lives in Kilmurry, tells Ellie O’Byrne how she’ll be spending her winter.
It...
Ed Donley – The Presidents’ Advisor
The descendants of two men who emigrated from the tiny village of Ballyporeen within three years of one another after the famine remarkably went...
The unusual story of a fishing rod
By Jerry Keating
Some years ago while fishing the lakes of Killarney, I asked my fishing companion John ‘Chippy’ Condon if we could switch fishing...
Weekend break an enjoyable experience for North Cork group
By Margaret Sheedy, Kildorrery
The following is the account of a recent tour undertaken by members of a North Cork group, organised by Margaret Sheedy, established...
Fishing Killarney’s lakes with John ‘Chippy’ Condon
By Jerry Keating
This story started about fifteen years ago when I met John 'Chippy' Condon in Tony Flynn’s shop in Kilworth. We started talking about fishing,...
REVIEW: 2018 – ‘A Season of Sundays’
On the back of an emotional roller-coaster of a GAA season, Sportsfile recently launched their twenty-second annual ‘A Season of Sundays’ book.
In a...
Joan – an inspiration to Karate club members
Joan Sheehan was 34 years of age when she first trained with Kildorrery Karate Club. Her son Martin was only 16 at the time...
My Volkswagen Beetle circa 1972
By Joan O'Callaghan
Thirty two years ago, I decided to learn to drive. My brother rang me to say he had got me a car.
He...
Annie and Ed – the holiday after the holiday!
We had spent most of the winter strangely free from the self-imposed pressures of home life, soaking-up the warm sunshine, and the very welcome...
