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On one of the most sacred nights of the Church’s year, sixteen adults were received into the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil at Galway Cathedral.

As an antidote to all the hustle and bustle, Music for Galway has organised vocal ensemble Collegium directed by Mark Duley to perform Heinrich Schütz’ setting of the St Matthew Passion.

Good Friday is always a day that feels different, and on April 3, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church offers Galwegians in the city centre an opportunity for choral reflection at 5pm.

John Buckley, a Cork father of four, posted a letter and a package before Christmas to a 31-year-old prisoner serving a life sentence for murder in a Scottish jail.

Two men appeared before Portlaose District Court last Friday connected to an alleged plot to blow up a place of worship in Ballybrit, and accommodation centres across the city. They were intercepted in Laois last week, and charged with possession of explosives.

Situated in the tranquil cul-de-sac of Ard na Mara, Scoil Íde along with Salerno Secondary School was founded by the Jesus and Mary sisters. Scoil Íde is a thriving and welcoming primary school with more than 250 students. The school has a strong reputation for excellence in academics, music, and sport.

On this day, June 26, one hundred years ago, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary bought Spires House in Shantalla. Three of the sisters in the order had come to UCG the previous year to study for a degree and while they were in Galway, Mother Stanislaus looked for a suitable premises for a house of studies for them and finally purchased this premises. The house dates from the 1840s and got its name from the two unusual spires you can see on the roof. The building was used by the sisters as a hostel for secular students as well as their own nuns and these nuns became known locally as ‘The Spires Nuns’.

The Feast of Mercy is celebrated on the Sunday after Easter Sunday, known as Divine Mercy Sunday, which takes place on April 27. The feast is preceded by a Novena of Chaplets starting on Good Friday.

“She was beautiful, fearsome, an English aristocrat, a communist spy, a loose woman, a middling novelist, a doting mother, an impossible parent, a successful sculptress, a respected journalist.” This was how Anita Leslie described her first cousin in My Cousin Clare, her wonderful biography of Clare Sheridan.

A traditional icon, commissioned by Galway Advertiser founder Ronnie O'Gorman who passed away in May, will be unveiled tomorrow night (Friday) on the feast of St Nicholas, at the Patronal Vespers at St Nicholas Collegiate Church.