I was thinking of how so many of our people over the past year, have had to endure the self-same raw isolation in nursing homes, ICU, denied the comforting presence of family and loved ones.
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Amanda was too protective at the time for Kieran to check of it was a male or female.
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Lost and Found: Furbo Beach
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After painstaking microscopic examinations of the dancers, we think we have identified Sean in the still below. We think that’s him ‘bustin' da moves’ on the right.
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Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Friday, February 26, at noon from Barna Church. Join us in remembering Pat via our Facebook feed or YouTube channel.
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These were taken in the early-mid 80s at some event at the 'new' pitch in Clochscoilte. The old pitch was where the tennis/basketball courts are now in Bearna village.
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Heavy machinery carrying out works for Galway City Council at Silverstrand today, which remains closed to all traffic.
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This picture from 1990 shows the ‘cross roads’ where Lacklea/Seapoint (south) meets Furrymelia East/Truskey West (north).
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Requiem Mass will take place on Monday, Jan 18, at 2pm. Funeral afterwards to Réalt na Mara Cemetery, Furbo.
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We have provided our standing order/direct transfer details below for those who wish to contribute online. Otherwise, parishioners can continue to leave the weekly envelopes in: *the Post Box outside the parish office in Barna or *the Post Box near the church entrance in Furbo - these boxed are checked each day.
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Another great picture of old Bearna, this time looking south from where West Coast Vets is now on the Ann Gibbons Road (between Thornberry and the Twelve Pins Road).
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Tony’s funeral Mass will take place at midday on Thursday, January 14, and he will be laid to rest in Realt na Mara Cemetery, Furbo, afterwards.
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The account of the Maji embarking on a journey, searching for ‘the pearl of great price’, is a picturesque way of depicting people looking for meaning, understanding and a means of coping with the ups and downs of everyday life.
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There was no Creagan, Thornberry, or Heather Hill at the time and, interestingly, most of the other homes in the picture remain today.
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We send our love to the family of Catherine Waters (née Costello), London and formerly of Furbo, who died at home on November 4th. Her funeral Mass will be celebrated in Réalt na Mara Church, Furbo, on Tuesday.
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In a more secular age, when there may seem to be less room in the inn for acknowledging God through public worship, let us bring to awareness once more the goodness that abounds as evidenced in the spirit of people during the present pandemic.
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We send our sympathies to the family of Mary Cloherty, Clochscoilte, Bearna, following her death in UHG on Tuesday.
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We offer our sincere sympathies to the family of Matthew (Manus) O'Flaherty, Seapoint, Bearna, who passed away yesterday (Sunday).
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When I think of that night of November 20th 1920 (the recovery of Fr Griffin’s body), I think of another poignant ritual which happened around the broken body of another corpse shown the same respect so many centuries previously. - Fr Michael Brennan PP
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“Hopefully one or all the parents might read it and question what their kids are up to when out and about in the village,” the homeowner said.
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