In a very wet day on Saturday 13th October, on a hillside near Courtmacsherry, County Cork, the Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, unveiled a memorial to Henrietta and Ida Howell, two sisters who lived at Ballycullinane in that parish, and who perished in the sinking of the RMS Leinster when it was hit by two torpedoes on 10th October 1918.
The Annual Meeting of the Diocesan Synod of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh took place on Saturday 3rd October in Carrick–on–Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
The Irish Government has awarded €20,000 in urgent funding to repair the spire of Donegal Parish Church.
Affirm, a new project to support young people going through difficulty, is being launched in Connor Diocese.
Mothers’ Union members from all over Ireland travelled to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Saturday October 6 for the All–Ireland Triennial Thanksgiving Service.
The choristers of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Choir, Cork, together with their families embarked on an 8km walk around Mahon Point and Blackrock Village in Cork last Saturday, 6th October.
Last Tuesday evening, 9th October, the Revd Alastair Donaldson was instituted as Rector of the Kinawley and Holy Trinity Group of Parishes – Derrylin, Crom, and Drumany (Chapel of Ease).
On Saturday next, 13th October, the Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, will travel to Courtmacsherry and unveil a memorial to two sisters who died in the Leinster tragedy.
The foundation stone of the Church of Ireland parish Church in Bantry, County Cork, was laid two hundred years ago this month on 23rd October, 1818.
On Sunday, 7th October, the centenaries of both the second wave of the ‘Spanish’ Flu and the approach of the end of the First World War were remembered in a remote and fairly neglected graveyard on a hillside, at Maulinward (Meall an Bhaird), in the Parish of Kilmocomogue, near Durrus in West Cork.
