Liam Kenny

Oct 3, 2024 | dundalkdemocrat.ie | Tony Byrne |Liam Kenny

What a fantastic weekend’s golf at Mannan Castle Golf Club, of course for some the golf was better than others, the scores over the weekend were absolutely fabulous. Thanks to all the members who really supported this year’s Club Classic, to the visitor who came we hope you enjoyed and of course a big thanks to our sponsors. Not everyone can make it to the presentation, so the Prize Winners who weren’t at the presentation don’t forget to collect your prize.

Sep 21, 2024 | kildarenow.com | Liam Kenny

“A long-felt want supplied” ran the headline of the Leinster Leader on the first Saturday of October 1924 as the paper previewed the ceremonial opening of the new church in Sallins the following day. But the Sallins church was no standard edifice of brick-and-stone. Instead, it had arrived months previously in a packaged format similar to an “Ikea” flat-pack of today.

May 19, 2024 | independent.ie | Liam Kenny

For generations of gunners and, indeed, most arms of the army, the Glen has been a familiar environment, with its place names such as Camara, Cannow and Coolmooney imprinted in the memory of all who have passed a summer camp or participated in United Nations pre-deployment exercise within the embrace of its granite crags. For locals too there is hardly an eyebrow raised as sounds resembling thunder echo from the valley, while pyrotechnics illuminate the sky above Keadeen mountain.

Apr 1, 2024 | kildarenow.com | Liam Kenny

The tranquility of a 1940s rural townland south of Naas was shattered when an aircraft plunged from the sky fatally injuring its pilot. Sergeant Pilot Michael McLoughlin died when his plane struck a tree and impacted the ground in the townland of Sillagh straddling the road from Naas to Ballymore Eustace. The crash seventy-five years ago is scarcely recalled in the locality today but in March 1949 it made the front pages of the national press.

Oct 7, 2023 | kildarenow.com | Liam Kenny

Liam Kenny looks back to the opening of the Naas By-Pass forty years ago this month.. “Motorway opens up a new era” sang the front-page headline of this newspaper in the first week of October 1983 as it heralded the official opening of the Naas By-Pass, the first stretch of motorway standard road in the Republic of Ireland.