IT was the day that a little bit of Hollywood razzamatazz illuminated the St Patrick’s Day parade in Killarney but the A-list screen star at the centre of it all insisted he was just one of our own. It has been 11 years since the brilliant Michael Fassbender, then aged 32, accepted an invitation to… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Turn Back Time
Feet on the street, man bites dog, hairy chests and Boney M – it’s some town for one town
IT HASN’T GONE AWAY YOU KNOW: PEDESTRIANISATION OF PLUNKETT STREET SPLIT OPINION BACK THEN AND NOW IF you think it’s a divisive issue now, you should have witnessed the heated stand-off that developed when a proposal to pedestrianise Plunkett Street appeared on the local agenda back in 1992. To suggest that it split traders into… Continue Reading
Hassle at the Castle soon turned into a cruise through life
WHEN A NEW ADDITION TO THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY MADE QUITE A SPLASH TWO of them are now as familiar on the Lakes of Killarney as swans dipping for tadpoles and anglers telling tall tales but there was a day when one waterbus – not alone two – wasn’t made welcome in the shadow of… Continue Reading
A man-made beach in Killarney: A great idea or absolutely nutty?
WHEN A PROPOSAL FOR A MAN-MADE BEACH IN KILLARNEY WAS LABELLED ‘ABSOLUTELY NUTTY’ IT is, in many ways, Killarney’s best kept secret and, unless it’s accidentally stumbled upon by tourists, the little ‘beach’ at Dundag is where you’ll find only locals dipping their toes with visitors from elsewhere a very rare sight. Despite the fact… Continue Reading
The mystery fire that gutted Killarney’s ballroom of romance
MYSTERY FIRE THAT BROUGHT A HISTORY-STEEPED BUILDING CRASHING DOWN IT was, until the late 1960s, a thriving hotel that housed the original ballroom of romance – known as The Blue Room – where courting couples met to dance the night away to the big band sounds of the day. Ahead of its time in terms… Continue Reading
