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Knock Museum was this week highly commended in two categories at cross border Museum Awards which were hosted by the Heritage Council, in partnership with the Northern Ireland Museums Council to coincide with International Museums Day.

If any reader thought that spirituality was a dying aspiration of the Irish people, they might recall the 20,000 or so who climbed Croagh Patrick on the last Sunday of July, or go to Knock, Co Mayo, on August 15, the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Assumed into Heaven, to see thousands of people, many in family groups, happily attending Mass, saying the Stations of the Cross, eating ice-cream and chips, thoroughly enjoying the day out.

Ireland West Airport Knock has become the new location to tell the story of the newly discovered ‘national treasure’, the Jackie Clarke Library and Archive. Mayo County Council is delighted to bring to the public an exhibition on the collection in association with the airport.

Week II

An inspirational 95-year-old great-grandfather, who became national news at the weekend by qualifying for the finals of a major international fishing competition, has been invited as a guest of honour at a special Grandparents Pilgrimage in Knock Shrine.

An unusual feature of the apparition at Knock on August 21 1879, was that it was silent. On all other occasions when the Virgin Mary has appeared, a verbal message was imparted to the visionaries. It was usually an exhortation to pray. But the Knock vision, consisting of Mary, St Joseph, St John the Evangelist, and other religious images, was motionless. There was no verbal message.

Last Friday, August 28, proved to be the busiest day in the history of Ireland West Airport Knock.

August 28 proved the busiest day in the history of Ireland West Airport Knock.

Catholic grandfathers and grandmothers throughout Ireland will next week establish an historic new national organisation of grandparents, thought to be the first of its kind anywhere in the world, with Mayo grandmother Catherine Wiley, the driving force behind the Catholic Grandparents’ Association.

On Tuesday October 13 a scripture course will take place in Our Lady's School of Evangelisation, Knock, at 8pm. This course will run every Tuesday, for 10 weeks,