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Mayor of Ballina Councillor Michelle Mulherin along with Cllrs Padraig Moore and Mark Winters visited Scranton, Pennslyvania prior to St Patrick’s Day to join in the 100th anniversary celebrations of the birth of Fr Patrick Peyton. The Scranton-Ballina sister city committee hosted the three Ballina councillors.

Nano (Honoria) Nagle was born in County Cork in 1728. She was educated there and in France, where she eventually entered a convent as a postulant. She felt her mission lay in Ireland so she returned to Cork where she taught lessons in Christian doctrine. She sought out needy cases and established an asylum for aged and infirm women. In order to perpetuate this work, she formed, with ecclesiastical sanction, a religious community known as the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Later this title was changed to The Presentation Sisters. They received a set of rules, were approved by the Pope and finally, in 1800, raised to the dignity of a religious order.

A NEW book, examining how the Celtic Christianity of Ireland and Scotland, came under pressure from Rome as the Papacy sought to expand its influence, is to be launched in Galway.

A family fun day will take place at Kilkenny Castle on Saturday May 30, Sunday May 31 and Monday 1 June for the bank holiday weekend.

ON THURSDAY June 11 at 8pm, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Galway Baroque Singers will perform their annual concert in Leisureland.

The Mayo County Council arts office has announced the exciting line-up for the 2009 Force 12 Writers’ Weekend which is taking place this year from Friday June 12 to Sunday June 14 in Belmullet. Patrick Cotter will direct the weekend, with a host of well-known writers including Billy Ramsell, Clare Wigfall, John Corless, Liz O’Donaghue, Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan, William Wall, and writer in residence Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. The weekend is dedicated to visiting writers’ groups and it will provide a great opportunity for Mayo writers to interact with groups from all over the country.

The Orthodox Divine Liturgy for Pentecost will take place on Sunday June 7 at 3.30pm in the Church of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar.

As the enormity of recession hits us, and belts begin to tighten, one glimmer of hope remains in the centre of Galway city. Surrounded by the madness of ordinary life it is easy to forget the ray of light that beams from one of the citys oldest establishments. The occupants may be hidden from view, but the building’s grandeur is certainly not.

The parish of Mooncoin will celebrate Pentecost this year with the theme of Healthy Life Choices - Living by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

A Renmore priest has published his third book entitled By the word of their testimony. This is his second book to be published in New York by Lantern Books, and is a personal account of his journey from lapsed Catholic to priesthood.