Thursday, 04 August 2011 13:18
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PILGRIM numbers on Croagh Patrick last Sunday were “significantly down” on previous years.
This raises the question as to whether the age old traditional pilgrimage is losing its allure in the modern age?
Both the Garda Siochana and Mayo Mountain Rescue noted the decrease in Sunday’s numbers.
“A noticeable dropoff,” was how a senior garda put it while a spokesman for Mayo Mountain Rescue reported the main pilgrim trail was “quieter than normal”.
One would need a heart of stone not to feel pain for the plight of the Collins family from Killala. One dark December night just over 10 years Sandra Collins (29) disappeared. She vanished as completely as if she had been plucked from the earth by an alien spaceship.
A poem extolling the beauty of Islandeady, the birthplace of Taoiseach Enda Kenny, written by an Islandeady woman, was quoted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon in Washington on St Patrick¹s Day. The House Speaker, John Boehner, was paying tribute to Enda Kenny on his election as Taoiseach.
Admirers in the midwest American city of Minneapolis have a nickname for Kieran Folliard. They call him 'gold-dust' because of his litany of business successes over the years. The Ballyhaunis native has four landmark public houses in Minneapolis – The Local, Kieran's, Cooper and The Liffey.
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