
Margaret Cushen is the news correspondent for the Carlow People and writes articles and news items for our Parish site.
Contact her at mcushen@eircom.net

Margaret Cushen is the news correspondent for the Carlow People and writes articles and news items for our Parish site.
Contact her at mcushen@eircom.net
Parish Year Book
The 2011 Bagenalstown Parish Year Book is now on sale at the Little Shop, Bagenalstown Office and Secretarial Services, Short Stories, Kilcarrig Stores, Super Valu, the Black Cat, Fenagh and Ballinkillen. It is full of interesting articles including Myles Kavanagh writing about his African experience; deaths, births and marriages in the Parish; the [...]
Bagenalstown Parish Year Book 2011
The 2011 Bagenalstown Parish Yearbook will be on sale from Wednesday, Dec. 14. It will be available from The Little Shop, Bagenalstown Office and Secretarial Services, Short Stories, Kilcarrig Stores, Supervalu, The Black Cat, Fenagh and Ballinkillen. There is a limited number of copies and the cost is €5 per copy.
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Carols
A Festival of Carols will be held in All Saints Church, Fenagh, on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 5pm. Solo artistes and community singing followed by refreshments in the Parish Hall. All proceeds to St. Lazerian’s House, Bagenalstown.
Church Gate Collection
St. Vincent de Paul Society will hold their annual church gate collection at all Masses in the [...]
New deadline
Please note that the deadline for items for the Bagenalstown Page is 10pm on Thursday nights and can be sent to me at mcushen@eircom.net, by phone to 059 97 21333 or left into The Little Shop, Kilree Street, Bagenalstown.
Coffee Morning and Craft Fair
BEAM Services are hosting a Coffee Morning and Craft Fair on Thursday, [...]
Kilfenora Céilí Band comes to Tullow.
Not many live to the ripe old age of 100. In the span of a century, entire countries rise and fall, cultures evolve, fashions transform. Only the great and special endure. One such icon, the Kilfenora Céilí Band, born more than a century ago in the tiny village on the [...]
Charity Car Wash
Last Saturday week the members of Bagenalstown Fire Station undertook a Charity Car Wash in aid of the ASD Unit in the Queen of the Universe National School. There was a great turn out on the day and they raised a total of €1,012.96
A big thank you to the members of the Fire [...]
Bagenalstown Family Resource Centre .
Empowering Parents Training
Bagenalstown Family Resource Centre offer free “Empowering Parents” training. Parenting is a big responsibility. It is often full of joy but it is also very hard work. It can often be even harder work if your child has a disability. DESSA
“Empowering Parents” training will be run one morning a [...]
County Champions
Congratulations to St. Andrew’s footballers who won the County Championships in Carlow recently, beating Clonmore, by a huge margin of 9 pts.
Presidential Honours for Baden Powell Scouts
Thursday, Sept. 29 was a historic day for the 1st Bagenalstown Baden Powell Scout Troop when two Troop members, Jennifer Holligan and Fiona O’Halloran, received their Gold Gaisce [...]