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JJ Burke Car Sales, Ballinrobe, are thrilled to support Western Lakes Cycling Club in their fundraising campaign for Aware by providing them with a van on their ‘Mizen to Malin’ cycle.

JJ Burke Car Sales is delighted to announce their latest community initiative, they are inviting pupils/ players from all over Connacht to enter their recently launched colouring competition open to children and teens up to U-17s. The winner will win a training session with Mayo footballing heroes Diarmuid O’Connor and Tommy Conroy along with a set of jerseys for their club or school.

JJ Burke Car Sales, Ballinrobe, is always a great supporter of Mayo football and to kick off the championship season the company is having a fun family afternoon on Saturday from 12 noon to 2pm. All are welcome along to the JJ Burke Car Sales showroom where you will be greeted by players from the Mayo Senior football team who are starting their championship campaign on the Sunday, May 21, against the winners of New York v Sligo game. Players from the team will be available for signatures and photos, as well as the triumphant Ballinrobe Community School who won the All Ireland Schools final recently. Children will enjoy family fun with characters from the popular TV show Paw Patrol as well as face painting and goodie bags.

One of the great obsessions after the war was how to come to terms with the ‘missing’ - the many thousands of young soldiers who were either vaporised, or blown to pieces, by high explosives; or were drowned and lost in the mud. Last week I tried to tell the heartbreaking search for their missing son Jack, by the Kiplings. For months they haunted hospitals, interviewed soldiers, even dropped leaflets on enemy territory, pleading for information. Even though the Somme still reveals bodies today, Jack Kipling was never found.

Before Fr Peter Conway was appointed parish priest of Headford, he was a curate in Ballinrobe. His very considerable energies were thrown into building a new church and presbytery. He also succeeded in acquiring a site for the Convent of Mercy and Christian Brothers’ schools in a primary location in the centre of the town. And all may have been well, and the good father praised for his building and organisational skills, and allowed to live in peace, were it not for the Mayo general election of April 6 1857.