- Did you know that in 1885 was the first Gaelic football match played by GAA rules in Naas?
- Did you know that St. Bridget is the patron Saint of Kildare?
- Did you know that Kildare Town claims to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, town in Ireland?
- Kildare owes its ancient importance to St. Brigid who founded her monastery here in the late 5th century?
- Did you know that very shortly after the Normans landed in Ireland in 1169, they occupied Kildare and Strongbow made it the centre of his campaign to conquer Leinster?
- Did you know that St Patrick visited Naas in AD448 and baptised King Dunling’s children at the well at Oldtown, near the town?
- Did you know that in 1919 “Co Kildare Tennis Club” at its Annual General Meeting decided to admit ladies to the club by ballot on payment of a ten shillings fee. Mná na hÉireann and Naas enters the twentieth century?
- Did you know that in 1936 The Sisters of Mercy opened their first Secondary School In Naas?
- Did you know that St. David’s Castle in Naas, sometimes called King John’s Castle, dates from the early Norman era perhaps as early as 1200?
- Did you know that Maynooth in 1518 was the site of Ireland’s first ‘college’?
- Did you know that in The Turf Club was founded at the Curragh horse racing circuit in 1790 to regulate the racing of horses?
- Did you know that the Kildare leg of the dual carriageway to Naas opened in 1963 and was followed by Ireland’s first section of motorway, the Naas Bypass in 1983, the Newbridge bypass (1993), Kildare bypass (2003) and Monasterevan bypass (2004) on the M7, the Maynooth bypass (1994) and Kilcock- Kinnegad bypass (2005) on the M4, and the Kilcullen by-pass (1994) on the M9?
- Did you know that Arthur Guinness FOUNDER OF GUINNESS BREWERY lived in Leixlip? The founder of the world famous Guinness brand, Arthur Guinness’ first experience of brewing took place in Leixlip where he brewed ale in 1755.
- Did you know that Ernest Shackleton EXPLORER came from Kildare? Having joined the Merchant Navy, Ernest Shackleton was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve where he was part of the National Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott on board the ship ‘Discovery’ in 1901?
- Did you know that Harry Walsh was born in August 2001 and has lived in Naas ever since?