Last Saturday Peggy Byrnes Shannonbridge and her twin sister
Maura Argue celebrated their birthdays together. Maura travelled
over from Scotland for the party and of course was late for the ferry.

And on Saturday last Shannonbridge's own Karl Rock. now based in London
was home to announce his engagement to Katherine Mc Gilligan a native
of Kerry.
Congratulations and best wishes to the Birthday Girls and to the
newly engaged.

Sunday 21/2/2010 Michael Molloy,Tullamore reported catching a pike
weighing 6 lbs-2 ozs caught on a dead roach and returned alive.
Martin Lynch,Ballyboy fished with Michael and had a 7lbs 7 ozs pike
caught on a dead bait and returned alive.
They were fishing on the Shannon where Martin remembered catching
a 31 - 06 lbs pike on 27th April 2008 also fishing with dead bait.
Fishing catches are welcome so that they can be recorded on this site.
The catch book is in Killeen's Shop Shannonbridge.
Heard that John Gleeson who fishes this area has been seen fishing
in Florida recently for Swordfish and Sting -Ray etc.

Monday night Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was presented by the
Ballinasloe Musical Society and was a very enjoyable performance.

On Thursday 25th February Brendan and Mary Kilduff called in.
Their parents were Berni Kilduff and Mai Kilduff. Berni Kilduff lived
in Creggan and married a Mai Kilduff and then lived in Ballinasloe.
Berni was a builder and built the Grocery Shop of Killeens Shannonbridge
in the late Forties.Mai had a popular sweetshop in Main Street in
Ballinasloe. They are related to Rory Kilduff the saddle maker.
They told that Rory's mother died on 25th February 1969
Brendan and Mary are both living in Dublin.
Mary has three children Katy, Rory and Brian.
Brendan and Mary reckon that their grandfather and my grandfather
were First Cousins.
Brendan himself is a young looking Grandfather.

Today Friday 26th February Donal Coughlan from Newington Conneticut
stopped by with his friends Simon and Maureen Kavanagh from Clare-
Galway.
Donal's parents were Dan Coughlan and Nellie Lucas
and he was reared in Clonfert.He was remembering people from
the Callows such as Comers,McDermotts,Traceys,etc and mentioned that
a Michael Hough had written a history of the Clonfert Callow Families.
Talked about the floods and how the families lived with the floods.
Also about the great number of eggs and the amounts of unsalted
country butter produced and the amount of snuff used mostly by the
ladies.
Donal has two cousins priests in New Jersey Jackie and Eugene Boland.
Maureen Kavanagh visited the new Shannonbridge Pottery Shop located
where the old post office operated.So Donal went away with a gift
from Shannonbridge.