EXACTLY 28 years ago this Sunday, a talented young basketball squad from Killarney booked their place in the sporting annals with a performance that earned them a coveted national title. St Brendan’s College clinched the All-Ireland Colleges Senior A championship with a thrilling 84-78 victory over Cork’s North Mon in an all-Munster decider played at St Declan’s… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Turn Back Time
Flashback Friday: The Mon boys triumph
A football team from the Presentation Monastery National School, Killarney that took part in – and won – an inter-schools tournament in the 1980s. Back, from left, Peter Fleming, JP O’Shea, Dan Murphy, Sean Clarke, John O’Shea, Noel O’Leary, Tony Looney, John B Doran and Diarmuid O’Carroll. Included in front are Cian Long, Seamus O’Doherty, Pat O’Shea,… Continue Reading
Flashback Friday: Stars of the 60s
When Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and co were winning the World Cup for England in 1966, soccer was also taking a hold in the traditional GAA stronghold of Killarney and it was around that time that Killarney Athletic AFC was founded. This nostalgic snapshot (click on image to enlarge) shows a group of young players… Continue Reading
Friday Flashback: The Class of 2000 on the first day at school
SOME things never change – and the first day at school will always be an occasion filled with excitement, with tears, with nerves, with anticipation and with some of the cutest photographs of the year. While the Class of 2015 set off this week with their uniforms spic and span, their satchels on their backs and… Continue Reading
Friday Flashback: The Killarney Bar that packed them in
THIS is how downtown Killarney looked close on 100 years ago. Men in hard hats and neat suits gathered at street corners to discuss the state of the nation and many of the womenfolk, clad in shawls, guided pony and traps along the uneven, unsurfaced streets on their way to the market. This nostalgic snapshot… Continue Reading
