Today I checked the Irish Independent Calendar to see what Feast Day was on 15th August.
Not a mention of The Feast of The Assumption. It is also ommitted from their Christian
Religeous Calendar located on a page that gives feast dates for a number of religeons.
I noticed that next Saturday 22nd August is the First Day of Ramadan.

Yesterday 16th August the Youth 2000 Mass at Clonmacnois had one bishop and about 30 priests
celebrating. A family living near Clonmacnois attended the Mass and were very impressed.
The son told us that the ceremony lasted over two hours but the time flew.
A five piece band played gospel music for about 20 minutes during the Mass and for 15 minutes
after the ceremony. The father in this family changed his car recently after 15 years and
told a neighbour that the old car had given him great service and he hoped the replacement
would give him the same good service. The owner is 90 years old and good for him.
On Saturday I met a priest from Salthill that was attending Youth 2000 and he told me that
Bishop Colm O Reilly had given an excellent homily on Saturday for the Feast of The Assumption.
I wondered if it was a prepared typed homily but he was of the opinion that it was offthe cuff.
So chances of getting a copy for this site are slim.

Brian one of those attending Youth 2000 lost a blue weatherproof jacket and can be contacted at 0860532255

For people with Broadband you might like to do a search on "shannon bridge. Note the gap in theshannon and bridge.
A Gentlemans Gazette tells of a butler that poisoned his employer.
www.askaboutireland.ie has Griffiths Valuation 1850. Note that Shannonbridge is listed under two headings -
Cloiffeen covers south of the village.
Raghra covers north of the village.

Guinness Brewery are celebrating 250 years of Uncle Arthur in September and their television adverts mention
tickets are to be had at guinness.com Just curious.

There is a Community Threshing Festival at the Blackbull, Sharavogue, Birr on Sunday 31st August
They are selling tickets in ais of a car park development at Ballybitt Church with A Bull Calf
as first prize with raffle on that night. Tickets cost 3 for 5Euro. They also have prizes of a Hamper
and One Tonne of Briquettes

Puzzle from Tom Kelly. 10 10 10 = 950 Make sense of this with one stroke of the pen.

Marian, Tom, Cloe, David, Martina and Ger from Wellington Bridge in Wexford hired an Athlone Cruiser
for the August Bank Holiday and visited Shannonbridge. They told us that this was their 6th year to
hire an Athlone Cruiser.

Mary Bermingham has a grandniece named Carissa Farrell who is a director of Visual which is centre for
contemporary art & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre which I think is based in Carlow town.
They have a website www.visualcarlow.ie
When I first met Carissa I told her that she had a funny name and she was not pleased.

Booraparklands.com have a website showing their attractions. Probably put www in first.

Someone told me recently that Glycerine was invented by a chemist from Athlone named Lyster.