Regular Saturday night visitor to Shannonbridge Mai Craughwell missed last Saturday night as she went to Dublin to buy clothes for her grand-daughter's wedding on Friday.Earlier in the week she shared a 500 Euro jackpot in her weekly Bingo outing.Talk about timing.
Tomorrow is the feastday of Saint Cillin who ended up as a Bishop in Wortsburg Germany.He moved around in the monastery circuit in Ireland before heading for Germany.One of the churches located where the present Mass shelter is built in Clonmacnois is named after him and some years ago a busload from Cillin's diocese led by their Bishop arrived on pilgrimage but were not allowed to have Mass in Clonmacnois.
Yesterday we were talking about another Cillin a Don Killeen from Omaha who I found in the local phone book a few years ago when in Omaha.Don and Lauri his wife visited Ireland last year and offered their holiday home in The Rockies to Eleanor and Ciaran Doyle and their two boys Peter and Stephen.Saturday morning they are off to take up the offer.If you are near drop in to see them.They called to Shannonbridge yesterday to say hello especially to Brendan Killeen who has arrived for Fergal Mc Evoy and Eilis Killeen's wedding on this coming Friday.