Tuesday 26th July
Ballinasloe have a number of interesting websites including -
>www.ballinasloe.com look under discussion form and they welcome contributions. The Web Cam camera that shows
views of Main Street and Saint Michaels Square was presented by Gerry Stronge and has not worked recently
is available on this web. Gerry Stronge promised me today that he will try and get it working real soon.
> Michael Breathnach told me that www.ballinasloearts.com has just recently been set up.
>www.ballinasloeactiveretirement.com have their own website and the walkers group went walking in Boora Parklands today
and stopped in Shannonbridge on their way home.
John Boland will tell you all about it on their website soon. They go a walking every Tuesday and plan to walk
in Garbally Demense and Portumna Forest Park and the Cliffs of Moher soon. Read their website.
> fadofado.com is a heritage site.

Lorraine Mc Kenna from Pottstown Pennsylvania asked in an e-mail to me last week why
the Ballinasloe web has not been updated for weeks.
Gerry Stronge advises her to look under discussion form.
Yesterday I telephoned Ballinasloe Chamber of Commerce about the website.
A"very helpful" girl told me that the Chamber were setting up a website to promote Ballinasloe.
Of course she never heard of any other websites that I mentioned.
Hope their website has a handle on their Chamber and that they get to use it.

Wishing the best of luck to golfer Shane Lowry and his new caddie Dermot Byrne as he plays in the Silesia Open
in Czechoslavakia this week and in the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron USA next week. Beware of the Tiger.

Cork City soccer club face extinction after High Court issues winding up order todays paper tells us.
They must raise 100,000 Euros before Friday.

Last Saturday I lost what I had wrote as I left to go to Clonmacnois for the Blessing of the Graves Mass.
Earlier on Saturday Dr.Michael Greally son of Annie Price and the late Joe Greally was laid to rest in
Clonmacnois after Requiem Mass in Shannonbridge. Michael was 42 years old. May he rest in peace.
Annie's sisters Vera (London),Ethel (Tralee),Eileen (Dublin) and Lucy (England) attended.
Kieran Pat Devery and his wife Anne from near Westport and London attended the funeral.

Pray for a good friend of mine Lee Blinmann San Diego who has died. Some eleven of his unique Christmas
Cards are hanging in Killeen's kitchen. May Lee rest in peace.

RTE Nationwide television program recently featued Camcloon National School on its hundreth birthday.
Mary Glennon nee Hardiman aged 104 and one of the original pupils was interviewed.

Last Tuesday some 38 Active Retirees from Portumna travelled upstream from Banagher to Shannonbridge
on The River Queen passenger boat operated by Silverline Cruisers Banagher. They had sunshine for a
good gander around Shannonbridge. Their bus collected them to take them for a meal on their way home.
One Portumna lady told us that she had never been in Clonmacnois. She promised to right her wrong and
return for a visit.

An old parishioner Sister Monica, a sister of the late Joe Claffey celebrates her 93rd Birthday on 1st August.

Met Joe Burke Ardnaglug recently and he told us that his daughter Aoife was married last week. Congratulations.

Christy Cunniffe from Clonfert and some friends are hoping to have a presentation on Callow People.
These are the families that lived on the callow land beside the River Shannon and their houses were subject
to flooding. They lived with the floods using a raft type timber flooring and bricks to raise the level of
the fire in their open fireplace.
Anyhow Christy is looking for photographs of those Callow People.
If you have any photographs you can e-mail them to Christy. Use chriscun@eircom.net for the carrier.