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Crash victim laid to rest

The 52-year-old victim of a single vehicle traffic accident which occurred at Kilsallagh on January 2 was laid to rest on Thursday.

Funeral directors play their part in road safety

Over the next few weeks, hundreds of high visibility vests will be distributed in County Mayo to churches by Mayo County Council as part of a road safety campaign. The high visibility vests, detailing a road safety message for drivers, will be available from churches throughout Mayo for funeral undertakers to give on loan to volunteers who marshal traffic at funerals on often dark and remote country roads. A death can lead to thousands of people descending on a remote house or church where big crowds have never had to be catered for before.

GAAW to hold ‘mock funeral processions’ protest

Mock funeral processions to remember “the innocent killed by the British and US war machines in their on-going illegal wars” are to take place in Galway.

Castlebar man dies in flat fire

A man in his thirties was found dead in an upstairs apartment in Castlebar on Wednesday afternoon.

Father Michael Griffin

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Ninety years ago this week, Galway was abuzz with the news that Fr Griffin, a junior curate for the parishes of Bushy Park and Barna, apparently responding to a sick call, went out into the howling gale in the company of three men who were said to have trench coats and rubber boots, and disappeared. The suspicion was that he had been decoyed from his house. It was significant that he did not take the Blessed Sacrament with him. His housekeeper heard very loud knocking as if with the butt ends of revolvers on the front door near midnight, as did one of the neighbours. Apparently Fr Griffin opened his window, spoke briefly to the men, and then left with them shortly afterwards.

Castlebar mourns loss of popular figures

The town of Castlebar has been plunged into mourning following the news that two popular figures lost their lives in an accident off Inishbofin island early on Sunday morning. The bodies of former Mayo footballer, Ger Feeney (55) , The Oaks, Castlebar and business man Donal McEllin (64), Maryland, Castlebar were found in waters off Inishbofin over the weekend.

Cinema Review Death At A Funeral

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Death at a Funeral is just one of those films that was lumbered with a not-so-great trailer but actually turned out to be a comedy not to be missed. It’s a funeral where just about everything goes wrong from demanding elderly relatives, to the hilarious antics of a drugged cousin’s boyfriend, and a mysterious dwarf with a secret.

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