Kilcullen

In County Kildare.

In Kilcullen, to be Pacific.

It's the Kilcullen Town Hall Theatre.

You don't know about it.

I haven't told you about this.

this is

about.

I had planned to ring up the Kilcullen Town Hall Theatre prior to this to try and find some answers, but have not had the chance to yet.

Get rid of it.

And it ends up in the hideout in Kilcullen.

The hideout's sold, and now it's in a private collection.

So

You know, and I really felt there's too much stacked against me here.

So anyway, I was in a car park on the Monday evening in Kilcullen and a friend rang me.

And he wouldn't always ring that terribly often.

So he rang me and he knew me well.

Just to mention briefly then, uh, we had spoken about it earlier, uh, just mentioned it in passing.

But just to mention again that intermediate A championship final that took place last Sunday, um, in Kilcullen, Ellistown defeating Nerney to lift that trophy for the first, uh, ever time.

They will be forever the first side on that, uh, trophy etched in there following a 12 point to four point victory.

Shems was a, a swirling breeze, made it really difficult for both sides.

And then Ellistown go up the field and score a point.

Nornie come down for another couple of minutes, couldn't get past the Ellistown defense or kick a wide, um, or they would kick a wide, and then from there you, um, you would have Ellistown kick another score down the end.

So good occasion in, in Kilcullen, good support.

A good vibe after it, you know, as another testament to, to this extra part of the championship.

It feels very similar to me with books, that there's a, there is a community.

Like, in Kil- in the Kildare Readers Festival, uh, Woodbine Books from Kilcullen were selling the books, and you get to chat to Don from Woodbine.

And then later that day, I went to another festival 'cause I was interviewing Mark Little, who has a book out, at the Dromineer Nina Festival.

And again, you just get this sense of, you know, culture having a purpose [laughs] you know-

Uh, we have the first piece of silverware on offer in the Intermediate Championship this weekend because Nerney and Ellistown won through against Castledermot and Ballyteague respectively, and that's the one football match that is played, uh, this coming weekend.

That is on Sunday, the 11th of October at 4:00 PM in Kilcullen, the first ever National Electrical Wholesalers Intermediate A Football Championship final.

One of Nerney or Ellistown will have the honor of being the first club to lift that trophy.

How would you see that one going, Tommy?

If they could crown it off that way, lifting this silverware, it'd be quite the feather in the cap of, uh, Alan Jordan in his first year, uh, managing the side there.

But yeah, I, I'd go for a narrow win for Ellistown, but not a hugely convincing tip at all.

Um, just looking at the Intermediate, uh, relegation semifinals then, I'm sure there's the, uh, sighs of relief all round, uh, Cope Road, uh, this week because Comfy registered just their second championship win in three years to avoid dropping into a relegation final, and they will stay intermediate for next year, a three-point win over Kilcullen.

The worrying thing for the Rags is they've actually played pretty well against Ellistown and now against Comfy and still lost both games.

A motorist stops.

Uh, he is heading for Kilcullen.

Now, that's only five miles down the road, uh, but Jojo takes the lift, and maybe she's thinking, "Well, maybe in Kilcullen there might be a phone box."

Yeah.

Uh, or maybe there's a way to, to improve her chances of getting home.

Yeah.

She could have been thinking of staying with that friend in Carlow.

Now, her second lift was at 11:15, and she arrives in Kilcullen, and she thumbs again and hails a lift almost immediately.