Issue 81. Is This a Wind Up?

CHRISTMAS, CHOCOLATE, RUGBY, FOOTBALL

November 14, 2025

Good Afternoon and Welcome,

To issue No.81. This week, having barely recovered from pond loss, we find we might lose our chocolate too…

South Kerry by the numbers

  • 2,000,000: € was the reported price paid to purchase Skellig Chocolates in 2022.

  • 1,200,000: € was the reported net loss of the company now operating the Skelligs Chocolates business, in 2023.

  • 596,550: € was owed to the company that was now its landlord in rent arrears alone.

*Both the company operating the Skelligs Chocolates business & the company renting the building to that company, are owned by the company that bought the business in 2022. Make sense? If so, please hit reply and explain it.

First, a word from this week’s sponsor

So very empty…

Best Pint in South Kerry 2025  

Votes flying in. Let’s remind ourselves of the final leaderboard from last year:

 Based on current standings, Rosie’s is staking a forceful claim to the title, but do they get your vote? Has the Lobster, fresh from being named as the best food pub in all the land taken its eye off the creamy pints? (Is that video evidence of a South Kerry landlord dance off call out? I think it might be)

Only you can answer these questions

Vote Now:

It’s The Signs of South Kerry 🎺🎺🎺

Easy. Where is it?

Congratulations to last week’s winners

  • Dave Shortall 

    Well done Dave! Who correctly identified it was the sign for the Waterville Heritage Trail, not for an information board, or The Lobster, or The Prom, as a good few of you thought.

Auntie Agnes’ Angle

Dearest Reader 

Keep warm, keep tested, keep going! 

The Oak Tree by Johnny Ray Ryder Jr

A mighty wind blew night and day

It stole the oak tree's leaves away

Then snapped its boughs and pulled its bark

Until the oak was tired and stark

But still the oak tree held its ground

While other trees fell all around

The weary wind gave up and spoke.

How can you still be standing Oak?

The oak tree said, I know that you

Can break each branch of mine in two

Carry every leaf away

Shake my limbs, and make me sway

But I have roots stretched in the earth

Growing stronger since my birth

You'll never touch them, for you see

They are the deepest part of me

Until today, I wasn't sure

Of just how much I could endure

But now I've found, with thanks to you

I'm stronger than I ever knew

Wasn’t that a break from the norm? Thanks, Agnes!

The Oracle’s 41st Cartoon

This week, Tim brings us…

Is there a better cartoonist in the known universe? There isn’t is there? Thanks, Tim!

Everything Else

  • All at Iveragh Eagles are at risk of exploding with pride this evening as Valentia man Michael O’Sullivan takes on South Africa for the Ireland U20’s. No better man for the sternest of tests.

  • The Climate Ceardaíocht Festival continues all weekend and into next week, more here

  • Are you a cider drinker? You can be a cider producer too, learn it all next Friday

  • Best of luck to all competing & supporting the South Kerry Championship Semi Finals this weekend.

  • Hve you any old Waterville photos? get them in the history book here

  • Sunday afternoon offers the ideal opportunity to craft your own ring here

TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE!!

You wouldn’t want to miss it would you?

Thanks

Late wasn’t it?

I got caught up trying to understand how a company that had lent money to another company, to buy another company, could then look to wind up another company, wholly owned by the company that it had loaned the money to buy the company that then split the company into the two companies, only one of which (I think) owes the money to the other company. Next week, I’ll try and make sense of it all.

Thanks for reading. Massive thanks to all contributors.

To those who have been patiently waiting for magnets, they are in still in envelopes at least. You’ll have them next week, I meant this coming next week. Honest.

Good luck, be well

Dave