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Judge Seamus Hughes has sent out a strong warning to people who arrive in his new district to steal.

In the different Ireland in which we all grew up, several pillars of the community were held in the greatest of esteem. We scampered when the garda approached, doffed our caps when we dared to address the parish priest, and adopted the grateful approach when meeting the local bank manager or insurance salesman.

Putting the clocks back or forward by an hour as required is something we take for granted nowadays. But this has not always been the case.

During the first three decades of the 19th century the parish priest of Blarney (north of Cork city) was the affable Fr Mat Horgan. He was the epitome of the traditional scholar-priest. He was a poet and antiquarian, a supporter of Cork university, an advocate for social reform, his hero was Daniel O’Connell, and he spoke Latin and Irish effortlessly. He lived at Ballygibbon (later named Waterloo after a bridge was built there in the month of the famous battle), and built a model of an ancient Round Tower, which can still be seen from the old Limerick to Cork road. But Fr Mat’s great gift was his love and generosity for bringing people of all classes together for dinners, parties and celebrations in a huge barn adjoining his home.

Thousands of euros worth of chalices and other ecclesiastical vessels were stolen in the early hours of Wednesday morning when two rural Catholic churches near Mullingar were broken into, in a week that saw two similarly sized churches near Tullamore suffer the same fate.

A special presentation is being made in honour of the 150th anniversary of an acclaimed scholar’s birth, who has been said to have “given Kilkenny its history” next week.

Bishop of Ossory Séamus Freeman has this week announced a number of clerical changes within the Ossory diocese.

Boasting a cast of over 40 performers, the Town Hall’s community staging of Tarry Flynn

The Westwood Hotel in Newcastle hosted recently an evening’s celebration to mark the jubilee of the ordination and the retirement of Monsignor O’Flaherty, parish priest of Galway Cathedral.

The Westwood Hotel in Newcastle hosted recently an evening’s celebration to mark the jubilee of the ordination and the retirement of Monsignor O’Flaherty, parish priest of Galway Cathedral.