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We got a taste of Summer this past week, let's hope there's plenty more where that came from!
Hope all enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend!
The Village Green should be ours again this weekend, according to some reports ....
Since last weekend, the bandstand got a lovely red cape - anything but 'green'!
The Dodsboro Road got a new Speeding Reminder!
Let's hope it works on this very busy stretch of road where children and pedestrians take their lives in their hands at times.
The nearby junction on Millstream Road / Woodview Heights is another point of concern with traffic regularly going through red lights.
Super Garden! Well the programme got off to a great start for us last week, when first designer up was a lad from Lucan. Eoighan Mountaine Barry created a beautiful garden that will be hard to beat.
We'll be watching again this week, but won't be surprised if we've seen the winner already!
Items held over! Please note that some items have been held over for next week's issue, due to pressure of space!
St. Mary's Camera Soiree
Last week we started to assemble photographs for possible inclusion in our 14th annual photography exhibition which will be held in the Parish Centre later this year. How time flies!
This week Joe sent in photographs of Reginald's Tower in Waterford city and of Malahide Castle. The present tower is likely to have been built in the 13th or 14th century, probably between 1253 and 1280. Down the centuries the tower has been used as a mint, a prison, and a military storehouse. In 1861, it became the property of the Waterford Corporation, and the residence of the Chief Constable of Waterford. It continued to be inhabited until 1954. Today it houses the Waterford Viking Museum and exhibits many of the archaeological finds from the 2003 dig at Woodstown on the River Suir.
The oldest parts of Malahide Castle date back to the 12th century.
Anna was in Mayo and submitted a landscape photograph of Croagh Patrick from across Clew Bay. Croagh Patrick has long been seen as a holy mountain, even in pre-Christian time. There has been a church on the summit since the 5th century. The current church dates 1905. On the last Sunday in July, thousands of pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick in honour of Saint Patrick, a custom which goes back to at least the Middle Ages.
Anna also found a rather strange looking fungus.
Michael G spotted an Asquith 'Vintage' bus in the car park of the Springfield Hotel.
Stay safe until next week!
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