Glenties Notes on March 15th 2000

On Saturday 11th March 2000 Nuala Ward, daughter of John P. and Kathleen Ward, Station Road, married Steve Cummings from Limerick in St. Connell’s Church, Glenties. The reception was in the Bayview Hotel, Killybegs.

Very talented fiddle player, Kieran Mc Elhinney, son of Brian and Rosaleen, Station Road and formerly of Meenahalla, is in the United States touring for the past month with “The Whole Shabang Band” who by the way have their own website. This Tour is nearly at an end as they are due home this week. They played in several venues in San Francisco, New York, Florida and Ohio. They are booked for three more tours in the USA this year – May 28th to June 25th, July 27th to September 24th, October 26th to November 12th.

Congratulations to Colleen and John Joe Mc Hugh, Brooklyn, New York on the birth of their first child, a baby girl, on Wednesday 8th March 2000. John Joe is a son of Annie and the late James Mc Hugh, Stranaglough, Glenties.

Bishop Philip Boyce will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to 28 young people from the Parish on Saturday next 18th March in the Church of the Holy Family, Edeninfagh