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Rochfortbridge Community Hall was officially opened on Wednesday September 30 by Cllr Fintan Cooney, chairman of Westmeath County Council, and blessed by His Excellency Rev Michael Smith, Bishop of Meath, at a ceremony organised by the hall committee and attended by local community groups, public representatives, and officials.

There was deep and profound sadness in the Claregalway area as the news spread on Friday morning of the untimely passing of Claregalway Parish Priest, Very Reverend Noel Canon Mullin. A humble man, he was Fr Noel to everyone.

Emer Murray, crowned by food writer John McKenna as ‘the best baker in Ireland,’ was an unhappy law student at NUIG. She came from a business and insurance agents background, and the law just didn’t have the excitement she thought it would have. One day her mother Ena told her that John and Anne Sherry were looking for outside caterers. They had recently taken over Lydon House, and wanted croissants and Danish pastries for their breakfast menu. Emer, who had a passion for cooking, went into O’Gorman’s bookshop, bought a book on making breads and pastries, and, that evening called round to the Sherry household with samples. She got the job.

This photograph was taken from the first floor of The Galway Arms at 2.25pm on a summer day in 1910 when these people were processing over O’Brien’s Bridge to the site of Saint Mary’s College for the laying of the foundation stone for that school. The large crowd is being led by a group of priests all wearing birettas, followed by several RIC men. There is an interesting mix of styles on view with some women wearing patterned Galway shawls while others are sporting large fashionable hats. Virtually all of the men are wearing headgear, be they hard hats or soft caps. Notice the tramtracks.

The body of the ‘old Santa Claus’ or the man who inspired the current Santa Claus can be found buried in County Kilkenny.

The Morisca Ensemble is to play in one of Kilkenny’s most unique venues this week - The Bishop’s Palace.

The Butts Community Savings Bank has had a record savings year with the bank handing out a six-figure sum to savers who were wise enough to put a little away each week for Christmas time.

Most Reverend Martin Drennan, the Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh and the apostolic administrator of Kilfenora, has made the following diocesan appointments with effect from Friday January 1 2010.

For the first time in the history of St Canice’s Cathedral a woman has been elected as the dean of the Church of Ireland Cathedral in Kilkenny.

Galway’s civic and religious leaders will be delivering their Christmas messages on Galway Bay fm on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.