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The Poor Clares monastery on Nuns’ Island was the location this week for the launch of a comprehensive book on the history of women in religious orders.

Students of Calasanctius college are ‘Joyful Joyful’ with the return of the school musical after a three year break due to the pandemic, with the countdown to curtain call of ‘Sister Act,’ a musical we are familiar with which stars Whoopi Goldberg.

The annual Carmelite Golf Classic will take place in Mount Temple Golf Club this Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9.

The Patrician Brothers, at the invitation of the last Catholic Warden of Galway, arrived in Galway in 1826 and a month later they opened St Patrick’s Monastery and School on Market Street. They initially had 200 pupils but this figure rapidly grew so that during the Famine, there were more than 1,000 boys being educated, fed, and many of them clothed there every day. The school was a major success but there were no educational facilities for older boys in the ‘lower orders’ in Galway so Bishop McEvilly invited the Patrician Brothers to set up a secondary school.

Following a sell-out performance in December 2019, Knock Shrine is delighted to announce the return of the Palestrina Choir for Music for a Midsummer’s Evening on Saturday, June 11, at 7pm.

The possible use of the former secondary school, St Aloysius College, as a hub for Ukraine nationals arriving into Athlone has been mooted by Deputy Mayor, Cllr Aengus O’Rourke.

At Calasanctius College, Oranmore, the process of deciding upon a grounded and well-researched Third Level decision, is honed throughout the lifespan of a student’s time. It involves all members of the whole school community, particularly our school guidance counsellors Ms Grace Denny, Ms Donna Curran, Mr Niall Loftus and Ms Deirdre Tobin along with each subject-teacher.

The Athlone Knights of Columbanus in tandem with St Mary’s primary schoolhave produced a short film which will feature in the Angelus each Friday evening through the month of December.

Next week, the Castlebar conference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) will be posting blue envelopes to houses in the Castlebar area as part of the SVP Annual Appeal. Demand for help increased by more than 20 per cent throughout the year, and with their annual church gate collection cancelled for a second year due to the pandemic, local SVP volunteers are asking for the support of the community to continue their work of assisting people in need.