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“MY BRILLIANT friend traces where I should end and where I should begin, and he touches me with all the need and the want that goes on between us.”

After months of lockdown, Knock Shrine has reopened the iconic Basilica for daily mass.

The move to reopen churches for public worship at Knock Shrine will be a welcome change for pilgrims and parishioners who, for the past number of months, have only been able to participate in Masses virtually from their own homes.

Pope Francis, through the Pontifical Council for the promotion of the New Evangelisation, will officially recognise the unique status of Knock as an International Marian and Eucharistic Shrine today (Friday, March 19) the Feast of St Joseph.

Athlone Musical Society has announced Tony Dalton as its newest Honorary Life member.

St Patrick’s Primary School is now enrolling boys and girls for September 2021 for all classes from junior infants to sixth class.

Knock Shrine is launching a new series of online discussions to engage people during Lent.

Betty Hernon has been appointed as the principal of Coláiste Muire Máthair — the amalgamation of St Mary’s College and Our Lady’s College.

At early Mass on Christmas morning 1842, there was a dreadful accident at Galway’s Pro-Cathedral during which 37 people were killed, and many more were injured. Known as the Parish Church, and completed just twenty-one years before, it was by far the largest Catholic church in the town, surprisingly built in preCatholic Emancipation times.

To think of Christmas is to think of shepherds and lambs, an ox and an ass, angels and a star, kings from the East with their rich gifts, wicked King Herod, and the providential escape to Egypt of the Holy Family. But most of all it is to think of a mother and her child.