Day: October 23, 2023

Radio Kerry’s Millstreet Broadcast on Sat. 28th Oct. 9am to 11am

On Monday, 16th Oct. 2023, Radio Presenter supreme, Frank Lewis from Killarney arrived with his wife, Siubhán (who coordinates the recording sound) to record some eight people throughout Millstreet for a very special broadcast on this coming Saturday, 28th Oct. 2023 from 9am to 11am on Radio Kerry – the full details of which are attached below in the form of a Press Release kindly shared by Frank….But firstly we share images from our full day of recording…Tap on the images to enlarge (S.R.)

Our day of recording began in Millstreet Museum at 8.30am.
Liam Flynn is interviewed at Drishane.
A coffee break at Café Aroma which was to be followed by a visit to Green Glens to interview Thomas Duggan but this was rescheduled to Killarney later that evening.
Hannelie O’Connor is interviewed at Station Road outlining the importance of the Millstreet Website.
We meet Eily Buckley in her very welcoming home.
Superb Music and Wonderful Chat at Millstreet Community School.
We meet James O’Sullivan in the exquisite setting of Tubrid Holy Well.
It was at the Boeing Crossing by the beautiful River Blackwater where we met with Jerry Doody.
Our day of recording was concluded at the Tranquility Garden by the Boeing near the River Blackwater. Sincere thanks to Frank and Siubhán for according the Millstreet Experience such greatly appreciated coverage on the hugely popular Radio Kerry. We encourage All to tune in on this coming Saturday, 28th Oct. from 9am to 11am.

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Rare Offcut of Dublin’s Spire on Display – Seán Radley’s Millstreet on Radio Kerry

Taking millions of photographs of everything that happened in Millstreet over the past 53 years.   Founding and running the Millstreet Museum for 43 years.   One of the three who set up the hugely active Millstreet Community Web site (www.millstreet.ie).   These are all part of ‘Seán Radley’s  Millstreet’ that will feature on the Saturday Supplement on Radio Kerry from 9 to 11am on Saturday October 28 – and will be on podcast from the following Wednesday.

Described as ‘the heart and soul of Millstreet’, Radley has had a hand in every aspect of local life for more than 50 years – and guides programme presenter Frank Lewis to a variety of these.

90 year Eily Buckley’s positive attitude to life has her acting and looking like a 60 year old  while  telling the sad stories of Cromwell’s armies at Kilmeedy Castle.

At Drishane’s 600  year old buildings historian Liam Flynn tells how the castle and estate were bought for £450 when it was valued at £8,000.

 The Millstreet Community Website is updated several time a day by its founder and web master Hannelie O’Connor a native of South Africa who has lived in Millstreet over 30 years.   On the afternoon the programme is broadcast (October 28) she hopes her native South Africa will again be crowned world rugby champions.

Thomas Duggan tells of the eleven all-weather and three indoor arenas, 1,500 permanent stables as well as a cross country trail that his family have developed in Millstreet.

At the Tranquility Garden in memory of Eileen O’Riordan at the Boeing Crossing on the River Blackwater Jerry Doody points to the footbridge that marks the way O’Sullivan Beare travelled from Beara to Breifine in 1603 – and Jerry sings the local anthem The Bould Thady Quill.

Principal Pól Ó Siodhcháin tells the stories and experiences of 50 years of Millstreet Community School and pupils Maeve Casey on concertina and on tin whistles Evan O’Sullivan, Luke Hickey and Aoife Casey play traditional jigs.

Seán Radley tells the extraordinary stories in Millstreet Museum of De Valera’s 1916 military belt, an offcut from the Dublin Spire, a wind up gramophone and a xylophone gong from 1840s.

James O’Sullivan is the caretaker of Tubrid Holy Well where he tells of  walking sticks left behind by people who say they were cured here. [read more …] “Radio Kerry’s Millstreet Broadcast on Sat. 28th Oct. 9am to 11am”