There are two meetings scheduled for tonight. Father John Cullen will speak at 8pm in Ard Chiarain on "Celebrate the Meaning of Life" By the way the diary of events for the year has been posted in Gallery on this website.
At 9pm in Shannonbridge Hall there is a Community Meeting concerning items such as speeding through the village, well-marked pedestrian crossways, water quality, walkways & roads, Tidy Towns.
Number of deaths including Paddy Kelly, Ferbane, father of our hairdresser Mags, Christy Madden, Ballinasloe, aged 85 years, Margaret Hermoso nee Nugent, Rath, sister of Mrs Frances O'Shea and Dave Allen ( O'Mahoney) the comedian from Tallagh. May they rest in peace.
Well done Padraig Harrington, winning the golf competition in Florida yesterday.
Our Irish Rugby Team was beaten by France on Saturday.
A survey of drinking carried out in four schools in Cork has been published. In one single sex school 73 % of the pupils drink.
Since the bird survey finished a couple of pigeons have dropped in to feed with the other birds on the roofshed in Killeen's yard.
Good to see Andy Rock out and about after a patch of sickness.
Good to see Laura Price and Ciara Finn back on the home sod after what they describe as a marvellous trip.
Also welcome home from New York P.J.O'Rourke from Correen who is visiting his sister Mrs Guinan,Clonfad. P.J. will miss marching with The Ancient Order of Hibernians in the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New Your for the first time for many a year.
Met a couple named Ward at the weekend who live in Perth in Australia. They had visited Clonmacnois and found a Ward graveslab almost covered over with grass and moss. It bore the name Ward and featured a pair of scissors.
Also met the Murphys from Denver Colorado who are both Irish Traditional Musicians. Pat plays a fiddle and Mary plays the guitar. They had visited Clonmacnois and were looking for a real tradional session.
They were staying overnight in Kajon House. Fraid I was not able to direct them in the right direction and as bad luck would have it Colin was away so no instant session was on the cards.
The Murphys are learning the Irish Language and recommended a website that they use called www.focalanlea.org or .com. This is the Irish for word = word, an = the, lea = day. Visit it.
On Saint Patrick's Day,
You can put the candle
And candlesticks away.
And eat your supper,
By the light of the day.
Weather has been fine and dry last week with a cold breeze common. Saturday and yesterday turned out almost like summer days. Forecast for today - rather cloudy and mostly wet this afternoon. Brighter and drier later. Temperatures 7C / 45F to 11C / 52 F.