Eye on the past

Missing memorial cross is restored

FRANK TAAFFE: EYE ON THE PAST 1575 IT’S almost 20 years ago in Eye on the Past No. 600 since...

Clonmullion AFC’s success is now part of Athy’s great sporting history

Frank Taaffe: Eye on the Past 1561       The local newspapers headlined Clonmullion’s AFC latest victory as Clonmullion’s...

Kildare Into O’Byrne Semis

O’BYRNE CUP GROUP C – ROUND 2 KILDARE 4-19 CARLOW 1-10 By Richard Commins AN energetic Kildare were far too...

Thursday, 13/01/22 - 11:30pm Read More
THE Irish National Land League, commonly called the Land League, was founded on 21 October 1879 at a meeting held...
Sunday, 31/01/21 - 3:50pm Read More
Eye on the Past No. 1464 HE was born in 1901, the youngest of seven children, and grew up in...
Sunday, 24/01/21 - 2:00pm Read More
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1461 TOWARDS the end of November 1918 the local newspapers reported on the arrangements made...
Sunday, 27/12/20 - 11:56am Read More
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1459 THE local G.A.A.club year of 50 years ago opened with controversy arising from the...
Friday, 18/12/20 - 11:08pm Read More
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1458 MUCH has been written in the past week about the Kilmichael ambush, so much...
Sunday, 13/12/20 - 12:07pm Read More

Athy woman played their role in fight for independence

EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1457   IT’S one of my many regrets that I didn’t realise the elderly lady...

Sunday, 06/12/20 - 1:35pm Read More

Eye on the Past: Please support Lions appeals in Athy

By Frank Taaffe THE local conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society has been doing extraordinary work within our...

Sunday, 29/11/20 - 10:01am Read More
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1454 THE week started with the ‘Virtually Shackleton’ event on Saturday streamed from the Town...
Saturday, 14/11/20 - 10:45am Read More
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1453 LOCAL history is all around us. It is in the buildings, the streets and...
Friday, 06/11/20 - 12:45pm Read More
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1452 LAST week’s ********Kildare Nationalist*********** carried a news item concerning White’s Castle and an announcement...
Sunday, 01/11/20 - 2:00pm Read More

Saluting the heroes past and present of Athy GFC

  EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1450 By Frank Taaffe IN years to come it may be described as the...

Wednesday, 14/10/20 - 7:30pm Read More
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1445 By Frank Taaffe THE  Leinster Express reported in September 1861 that Athy had 44...
Sunday, 20/09/20 - 10:00am Read More
By Frank Taaffe IT was reported in the local press as one of the biggest parades and pageants seen in...
Sunday, 06/09/20 - 11:00am Read More
By Frank Taaffe MIKE Robinson, born in this parish 77 years ago and now a long-time resident in Australia, sent...
Wednesday, 19/08/20 - 12:01am Read More

A look back at the history of Athy Museum Society

By FRANK TAAFFE THIRTY-seven years have passed since Athy Museum Society was founded following a public meeting in the local...

Saturday, 01/08/20 - 4:21pm Read More
By Frank Taaffe The Gordan Bennett race of July 1903 made Ireland, for a short time at least, the epicentre...
Sunday, 26/07/20 - 2:05pm Read More

Fr Matthew’s Temperance medals donated to Athy heritage centre

Eye on the past By Frank Taaffe IN a recent*Eye on the Past I made reference to Fr Mathew’s Temperance...

Sunday, 19/07/20 - 10:07am Read More