It Says In The Bridge: May 2025
Black comedy and carnage at the Town Hall, a dancing MEP at St Joseph's National School, and a young Kilcullen darts champion heading to South Korea to represent Ireland, are all showcased on this month's Bridge cover, writes Brian Byrne. Just three elements in the community's large and colourful tapestry of news and views, as reflected in the magazine.
The very successful run of The Lieutenant of Inishmore gets the centre spread space, with pictures illustrating the guns and gore of Martin McDonagh's play that highlights the dark side of Ireland's patriots’ game in grotesque comedic absurdity. If you saw it, you know.
Nina Carbery's visit to Halverstown School was part of a programme to help schoolchildren understand European cultures and the EU and is just one of the many fascinating pieces from local primary schools which have long been a feature of the magazine.
And Jack Courtney? Well, this young CPC student is 'on top of the world' according to Darts Ireland's Keith Falkiner, having made it onto the Irish Boys team for the WDF World Cup in South Korea in September. With an interim trip to Holland for the Euros in June. "I just take it game by game," he says, happy to have made the World squad after narrowly missing out on it last year.
Plenty of colour again in this month's mag, which word was the April theme for Kilcullen Photography Club's work. There are some interesting results that would encourage anyone to go beyond the selfies stage with their devices. There's also colour on the recent clean-up day in Kilcullen, which ties in nicely with the report from the recent KCA AGM, and in Gillian Rea's Bit of Business, this time on a Kilcullen-connected enterprise in Malahide, the Old Melon Yard.
Enterprise too more locally, with a piece on Duclos Fluffy Toes, a new dog grooming service at the Link Park, and in music terms a look at the Red Hot Music Club in Fallons including some upcoming offerings from Mary Coughlan and Luka Bloom. Mary Orford this month is also on the music scene, specifically looking back at ten songs to remind us of our dancing days through the 1960s.
Taking a walk rather than taking the floor, Noel Clare's Out and Away this month highlights three local places to stride out — Naas Racecourse, the Kilcullen GAA walkway, and the Ballymore Eustace River Loop. That last we tried ourselves, and for a little effort there are rewarding views. Of more leisurely outing interest, Daithi de Roiste this month writes about the High Cross of Moone, giving enough detail on the monument's carvings to encourage a visit.
Among other regular contributors, John Duffey reflects on how the time of three o'clock has featured through his life, from saying his first prayer on his own one Good Friday to helping a vet with a caesarean operation on a cow during the small hours. Sean Landers reaches the end of his series on Canon Somerville-Large of Carnalway. Billy Redmond returns to clean the parish grounds and wonders why nobody else does? Julie Felsbergs ponders on three things that made the late Francis 'the people's pope' and Fr Gary reflects on the plight of the disciples when they met the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus and the lesson from a 'Gospel within a Gospel'. The animal welfare page gives us sad stories that end happily, and there's also a one-off feature on the resumption of Maintain Hope's volunteer trips to Kenya.
Another mix of memories, many made in the past month, the May bridge is available in Eurospar, Berneys Chemists, Centra, Woodbine Books, the Parish Centre, the Credit Union, and The Old Hardware in Narraghmore.
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