Corrigan Brothers welcome Michelle Obama back to Moneygall with “Michelle Obama is coming back”
They have played for President Obama and have enjoyed chart success all over the world . Their international hit “There’s no One as Irish as Barack Obama” has reached over ten million YouTube hits while their song about Susan Boyle’s Cat called “I’m Pebbles Boyle, Spare a thought for me” is rumoured to have moved [...]
Moneygall Camogie Club Club Notes
Munster League Moneygall got of to a winning start in defence of their Munster League Tital of last year, on Friday Evening Kilmaley of Clare travelled to Moneygall for the first round match in which Moneygall won 2.08 to 1.04. The second round next weekend we have the long trip to Douglas, Cork. The third [...]
Liam Maccarthy and Sam Maguire Cups on Display in Moneygall for President Obama’s Visit
An interesting feature of the visit of President Barack Obama to his ancestral home in Moneygall will be that both the Sam Maguire and Liam MacCarthy Cups will be on display in the window of a premises on Moneygall’s main street owned by the Shanahan family of Toomevara, Moneygall’s neighbouring parish to the south west. [...]
St Flannan’s Community Games Dunkerrin – Moneygall
Last Tuesday Evening in lovely weather we held our very successful Annual Community Games Athletics Evening in the GAA Centre Moneygall. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people that helped out with the Athletic and Field events on the evening, the following are the results with the first two representing [...]
Coolbawn Dutchman Offers Free Wifi at Obama’s Moneygall Visit
Evert Bopp, a Dutchman living in Coolbawn North Tipperary, has offered to provide free wifi internet access in Moneygall during President Obama’s visit. “I had been keeping an eye on any developments in this area for a while” said Bopp “and was wondering how the visitors and mostly the international press would get Internet access [...]
A History of President Barack Obama’s Ancestors, the Kearney’s
Moneygall is a small village located on the Offaly/Tipperary border, with a population of 298 people according to the 2006 census. Moneygall has a Roman Catholic Church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a Garda station, and two pubs. But this small unassuming village in rural Ireland has quite a substantial claim to [...]
