The second episode in The Accidental Pilgrim series, recalling my thoughts during a Kilcullen Parish pilgrimage to The Holy Land in 2007. Sitting at a table on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, it was a scruffy kind of place really. A lot of litter. I had to wonder what kind of litter there was when Jesus walked these shores, looking for a fisher of men? Produced by Brian Byrne.

This is the first episode in a series called The Accidental Pilgrim, recalling my thoughts during a Kilcullen Parish pilgrimage to The Holy Land, in 2007. Even though I'm not a religious person, the trip still resonates after a decade and a half, for lots of reasons.

When Kilcullen's almost derelict cinema building became a project of the newly-formed Kilcullen Community Development Committee in November 1989, they probably didn't realise they were embarking on an endeavour that would take many years, and many headaches, to complete. Produced by Brian Byrne.

In January thirty years ago in Kilcullen, the pressure for a link road to the north end of the town from the new bypass was ‘intensifying’, according to local newspaper reports of the time. For some local businesses, it represented a fight for survival. Produced by Brian Byrne.

When two public meetings in the autumn of 1989 discussed the future of Kilcullen, one of the main issues was the need for an upgrade to the town's sewerage system. It was an issue which had been 'on the books for a long time' one local businessman had complained. And it was still quite a way from being solved. Produced by Brian Byrne.

The work of two Kilcullen Third Year students for their BT Young Scientists project could become a template for the HSE in communicating details about Covid-19, or anything else. Because their presentation on vaccine information devised by Emma Cremin and Charlotte Darby of Cross and Passion College has proved far more effective and comprehensible than those provided by the state body. Produced by Brian Byrne.

Much of the electricity used in our homes even in today’s age of renewable energy is produced with the help of an invention from 1884 by a County Offaly-educated engineer, Charles Parsons — a person of interest in the world’s ever-growing hunger for reliable energy. A Kilcullen Diary Podcast, produced by Brian Byrne.

The resurrection of a poem about Kilcullen published in the quarterly bulletin of Dominican College Newbridge in 1939 brought to light an eminent actor's connection with Kilcullen which most local people had never realised. The poem was written by a Third Year student in the college, Peter Dix. Produced by Brian Byrne.

The news business has become a vastly overcrowded sea where plankton just isn’t enough to feed the sharks, they continuously need something more substantial and juicy. Produced by Brian Byrne.

'Three Words for Goodbye' made me once again steal time from my other activities in order to keep reading it. At the same time not wanting to reach the end. Not because I knew there would be tears, rather that when you’re enjoying something, you don’t want it to finish. A review of the latest historical romance novel from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb. Produced by Brian Byrne.