Sunnyhill roadworks until Friday
It's being caused by a diversion from the Sunnyhill Road, which has been closed for road works.
The works are scheduled to continue until Friday next, according to Kildare County Council.
Labels: Parish Matters
An alert has been issued for the Calverstown area by the Kilcullen Garda District Text Alert Scheme, relating to a man going door to door with a roll of carpet.
The concern is that he is reported as trying the handles of doors at houses where he gets no response.
He is described as white haired, and driving a silver SUV. The guards have been notified.
Labels: Community Text Alert, crime prevention
Labels: communications, public services
When Shirley Kavanagh Hallion opened her Secret Kloset fashion outlet shop on Hillcrest just five weeks ago, she was putting down business roots not far from where some of her family roots are, writes Brian Byrne.
"My mother's parents were from Kilgowan, and though we were Dubliners, we were regularly brought down there to visit our grandparents," she recalls. "It was a small cottage on a bit of land, and there wasn't really a lot for us to do."
But that changed when Shirley and her siblings were teenagers, and they could come camping with their friends and all of a sudden Kilgowan was a lot more fun. Years later, all her family but one of her sisters had come back to Kilgowan to make their homes. Including Shirley, though she moved further down the road a bit to Crookstown last year following the death of her husband.
"Some of my friends were wondering if I was mad to be setting up a business after having had such a difficult year, as a newly single parent with two children," she told me last week, after a very successful Open Evening at the shop. "But for some reason, it just seems like the right time."
Shirley knows the fashion business inside out. She has spent 25 years in it ever since realising that her original job as a dental nurse wasn't what she really wanted to stay with. She began working in fashion for friends, then became deeply involved at retail, wholesale, production and buying. She took some years out when she had her children, but stayed in touch with the industry.
"When I came back to it, I worked in Fashion City, the wholesale centre off the M50. Over the last couple of years I also did some regular pop-up shops as a sideline in this area, and built up a terrific mailing list of customers."
Shirley had her eye on setting up something permanent in Kilcullen, a community which she really likes. Through an introduction by the Jennifer Monahan half of J & A Shabby Chic next door, she was able to do an acceptable deal with the new owners of Hillcrest. "Jennifer was actually one my neighbours in Dublin, so it's very much being with friends."
Labels: Business, Kilcullen Means Business
The windows taken from a premises on the Old Carlow Road on Wednesday have been found by the gardai, writes Brian Byrne.
The Marvin windows were in storage in the premises, and would have required several men and a large rigid truck to take away.
Owner Mick Behan says he left the premises at 9.30am and was back at 3pm, when he found the windows had been removed.
It's likely that the premises had been under surveillance by those who took the windows, and there were reports that a silver SUV was seen parked up in the area that morning.
There are no further details on the recovery.
Labels: Crime
Labels: Business, Kilcullen Means Business
We now have further details on the removal of a large number of windows that took place on Wednesday at a rented premises on the Old Carlow Road, Nicholastown, writes Brian Byrne.
It's known that the removal occurred in daylight, between 9.30am and 3pm, and that a large vehicle would have been required to take away the windows, of a very substantial value.
The windows are Marvin brand, made of composite and in a range of sizes, styles and colours. The property's owner says that a large rigid truck would have been needed to take them away, and the operation would have required several people.
A silver SUV was seen parked up in the area that morning, which would have been unusual, according to the owner. If anyone is offered the stolen goods, they should contact Mick at 087 6001004.
Witnesses or anyone with information are asked to contact Gardaí at Naas Garda Station on 045 884300. In particular, the Gardai are anxious to talk to anyone who may have walked, cycled, or driven on that stretch of road during the day.
Labels: Crime
Labels: transport
Labels: Crime
Kilcullen Text Alert has reported a black SUV with an 07 registration acting in a manner that has raised concern on the Old Carlow Road.
Anyone who has other sightings to report should contact An Garda at Kilcullen or Naas.
The Kilcullen Garda District Text Alert System raises awareness of suspicious behaviour in a number of Kilcullen areas.
Labels: Community Text Alert, crime prevention
Labels: Heritage
Labels: crime prevention
There were two text alerts from the Kilcullen Garda District today, relating to Brannockstown and Kinneagh.
The Brannockstown one was about a white van driving around the area with two men inside. In Kinneagh, a light blue large Fiat van with an 05 KK registration was seen on the Lurgh Lane, in a manner that aroused concern.
The Text Alert system is designed to keep the community safer by making people aware of unusual activity.
Labels: Community Text Alert, crime prevention
Anybody who knows Billy Redmond is well aware that he's not a man to leave things lying around the place, writes Brian Byrne.
Maybe it's his Army training, maybe it's just the nature of the man. But he believes there's a place for everything, and even if there isn't, well, he'll find one.
So when he came across a drawer full of medals and badges some time ago, he figured it was time they all got their place. Some of them were his own service medals from a life-long career in the defence forces that took him from the Curragh to the Congo to Lebanon and many places in between.
Others were army medals he had gathered from the armed forces of other nationalities, from men and women he had met while serving overseas. Then there were the badges from the many lands he'd walked in during years of raising money for the Irish Wheelchair Association.
Without realising it, his gathering instincts had also resulted in collections of local services medals, such as An Garda, Fire Brigade, Ambulance, and groups such as the Scouts.
In all, though he hasn't yet thrown a count on them, it looks like he might have upwards of 250 very interesting pieces in his collection, including button badges of Che Guevera, and the IRA hunger strikers courtesy of local man Mattie Conway. "They're all a part of modern history in their own way, and there's a story behind every one of them," he says.
Anyway, the question for a man with an ordered mind was what to do with them? Billy is a great man for the story telling, and his medals and badges weren't saying anything where they were.
As it happened, he also had a collection of six Irish Army webbing belts, including two for best uniform, and the sports wear belt — that's the red one — given to every recruit when they joined up at the time he did.
So he got the idea of mounting his badges and medals on the belts, and having a frame made up on which they could be displayed. The result is impressive, amazing, and intriguing.
And they will be available to public view on a number of occasions that he has arranged — in the Library and other locations. The dates are being published in the next issue of The Bridge, and on most of them Billy will make himself available to talk about the stories behind the pieces.
Like the black military cap that's on top of the display. It's actually an Israeli Army item, and not easy to get. How he did ... well, go along and ask him.
Meantime, Billy is still working his way through his other recent idea, of having a display of local memorabilia from homes in and around Kilcullen. But we'll get back to that story in due course.
Just another reminder that Fr Niall Mackey's Golden Jubilee celebration is this Saturday evening, and everybody in the parish is welcome to come along to extend their good wishes, writes Brian Byrne.
The event is being held in the Parish Centre, following the celebration of mass at 6.30pm.
Light refreshments will be served.
Labels: Congratulations, Parish Matters
Kilcullen Text Alert has reported a silver saloon car 'acting suspiciously' on the Lurgh Lane at Kinneagh this evening.
The registration begins with 12 TN, and An Garda have been contacted.
The Kilcullen Garda District Text Alert scheme is operated in association with An Garda.
Labels: Community Text Alert, crime prevention
The numbers drawn in the Kilcullen & Gormanstown Parish Lotto Draw held on Tuesday 26th May 2015 were 5, 11, 16 and 30. There was no Jackpot winner and next week's main prize will be €12,000.
The winners of the €50 Open Draws were Andy Dunne (Promoter Ethna Dempsey), Patsy Lohan (Vivian Clarke), and Isabelle Culleton (Mick Dunne).
The winners of the €50 Promoters Draws were Miriam McDonnell and Anne Brennan and the winner of the Draw for those in the Parish Centre on the night was Holly Duff.
The Parish thanks all those who continue to support the Lotto.
Labels: Parish Lotto, Parish Matters
Labels: fundraisers
An event to mark the Golden Jubilee of Fr Niall Mackey's ordination to the priesthood will be held in Kilcullen Parish Centre on Saturday 30 May, writes Brian Byrne.
It is being organised by Kilcullen & Gormanstown Parish, and all parishioners are invited to join in the celebration of a very special event.
Fr Mackey will be concelebrating Mass at 6.30pm on the evening, and refreshments will be served in the Parish Centre afterwards.
Labels: celebration, Parish Matters
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