In August 1955 The Westmeath Independent cost three pence. ?1 = 240 pence.
The issue dated 27th August had a snippet titled - "An Interesting Lecture".
On Friday, the 19th August, Mr. P.C. Molloy P.C. Clonmacnoise, while on a tour in the County Clare, met a party of Catholic German teachers with their chaplain at The Spa Hotel, Lisdoonvarna,and in the open square beside the hotel, he gave them a very interesting lecture on Saint Killeen -- the Patron Saint of Bavaria. He told them that Saint Killeen built a church at Clonmacnois in 648. He was called the Apostle of Franconia. He made his religious profession in Ionaand went to Rome in company with other holy men and was consecrated Bishop by Pope Conon, and sent to preach the Gospel to the peoples of South Germany. He founded the See of Wurzburg, where, after a fruitful apostolate, he was put to death with two other holy men, S.S. Colman and Totnan on the 8th day of July, 689. End.
For your information P.C. Molloy was a famous teacher in Clonmacnois at that time and lived where the Visitor Centre is now built. During the summer and in his spare time hefreely gave of his time telling visitors about Clonmacnois. His son Brendan wrote a book on Clonmacnois no doubt with parental guidance.