Best of the Blitz is yet to come as Castleisland hits magic 45

FORTY FIVE years later, Castleisland’s Christmas basketball blitz in Kerry is still going strong. But getting stronger?

That depends. You a paid-up member of the ‘if it ain’t broken, then don’t fix it’ club? Or the one warning you if you’re standing still, you’re going backwards?

As the Castleisland committee speeds head-long towards a magical 50th anniversary in 2019 of the first tournament in the town’s Astor Ballroom in 1970, does anyone dare look in the mirror and search for faultlines and wrinkles?