A final chapter outlines the awesome decline of the Catholic Church, not least because of the clerical abuse scandals and episcopal cover-ups but also owing to the rapid secularisation of society and alienation of young people as lamented by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. This book should be read alongside Seamus Mallon’s invaluable recent memoir, A Shared Home Place (written in conjunction with Andy Pollak).
Pictures by Otto Eastbrook
A young Irish nurse killed when the branch of a tree fell on a car she was travelling in Australia has been named locally. She was Mary Ellen Molloy from Ardara in Co Donegal.
Hat tip Louise Robertson
When complete, the waterfront path will link the town centre with the Rock and Castle and provide continuous public access to the foreshore of the River for the first time in 150 years.
Picture by Alan Ruine
