Last evening one of the first Stations was held with a Mass in Seamus and Celine Grennans with about thirty neighbours and friends attending. The priest asked people, that have plans to have a Station Mass in their homes, to let him know so that a suitable time and date can be arranged.
Read about cheap travel. Well last night I met Heinz and Ute Steinmann and Roland and Petra Kraft from Frankfurt who are on a cruiser for one week. Enquiring what their airfare cost they said that they had booked flights with Ryan Air last August. The flight from Brussels to Dublin cost 0.99 cents plus taxes of 24 Euro each. Return flights cost 9.99 Euro each with airport taxes again 24 Euro. They were collected at Dublin Airport by Emerald Starline and are cruising from Carrick on Shannon to Portumna where they leave the boat and will be taken to the airport. They visited Clonmacnois yesterday and caught a pike measuring one metre which was nice.
Mary Burke is going to spend an evening reading all of Kates letters one of these days. Kate would have been interested in a programme on TV last night presented by Marian Finucane where she visited an orphanage in Africa. 'Fraid I missed it.
On Monday at the beginning of the Hot Water outlet culvert from the power plant three dead salmon were found on the bank. Apparently they went off course on their way upstream and when they met the surge of water at the outlet they naturally tried to jump it and landed up on the bankside where they died. Fisheries were called in and they believe that they may have been members of a travelling shoal and the Fisheries task is to reroute the other salmon. At least it is good to hear tell of salmon in Shannonbridge as nobody seems to have seen one for years.
Weather yesterday was great and it is good here today but those forecast people tell us that rain is spreading across the country. Read on yesterdays Irish Times that the feature Weather Eye reached the magic 5000 articles yesterday which is some going.