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Happy New Year to all our Readers - We hope 2025 will be good to all of you!
Whether the weather ....
While we had a lovely mild Christmas, we're certainly paying for it now. The heating oil/gas we saved a couple of weeks back, is on overtime these days.
Venus shining down on us!
Did you spot the planet Venus very close to the moon over Christmas - it was hard to miss it ....
Apparently, several planets are lining up having a look down on us at the moment - happy days for any stargazers out there!
Welcome back to Sr. Geraldine!
She did well to get back to Lucan before Cork felt the brunt of the snow and ice ....
Young Scientists!
Good luck to all the Lucan students taking part in this year's event. Looking forward to the reports in next week's issue.
Christmas Tree Recycling!
Last chance to recycle your real Christmas Tree, on Monday 13th January. South Dublin Co. Co. have organised collections in Lucan at the following points:
Beech Park Open Space
Sarsfield Park Open Space
Griffeen Valley - Hayden's Lane Carpark
Foxborough Open Space.
St. Mary's Camera Soiree
To begin with I wish all readers of the Newsletter every good wish for 2025 on behalf of the members of St. Mary's Camera Soiree. If you missed our exhibition at the beginning of December Lucan Library is displaying a selection of 20 from that exhibition for the month of January. So do drop in!
This week's photos range from one submitted by Frances of a floral surprise she found in her garden on St. Stephen's Day, which probably has not taken kindly to cold snap, to a photo taken by Joe of the freezing fog in St. Edmundsbury on Wednesday morning.
Anna was abroad and sent in photos from Warsaw and London. I particularly liked the one of the 'bicycle sheds' for the Houses of Parliament in London and the restored Royal Palance in Warsaw.
When I discovered Anna was in Warsaw, I sent her hunting for the shrine there containing the heart of the Polish composer, Frederic Chopin. She found it in the Holy Cross Church where it is encased in a pillar. The story goes that before Chopin's death in 1839 one of his last requests was that his eldest sister take his heart to Poland to be buried at a local church. She complied with his wishes, smuggling his heart through customs at the Austrian border, past Russian border agents and into Poland. Chopin's body is buried at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris along with the remains of countless famous figures associated with the arts, including Oscar Wilde.
Until next week stay safe!
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