A series of Masses will be celebrated in Ireland in the week ahead to honour Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa was beatified in Rome last Sunday.
From today until October 29th the Masses will take place in Armagh, Dublin, Knock, and in Blarney, Co Cork, where the Missionaries of Charity, which she founded, have a convent.
Wind-farm work
is suspended
The ESB subsidiary, Hibernian Wind Energy, has suspended work on its €60 million wind-farm at Derrybrien, south Galway, for another week, following the landslide on site nine days ago. Investigations are continuing into the cause of the landslide in the Slieve Aughty mountains, when about a kilometre of peat, 100 metres wide, rolled down the slopes through Coillte forestry.
Ex-pupils killed in wars remembered
Plans have been prepared at one of the State's best-known schools to commemorate former pupils killed in the last century including, for the first time, those who died fighting in the British army during the first and second World Wars. The Jesuit-run Belvedere College in Dublin will have its commemoration on Saturday, November 15th.
Woman dies in road accident
At 9.50 a.m. yesterday a fatal road traffic accident occurred at Cranmore Road, Sligo. A female pedestrian (81), was attempting to cross the road when she was struck by a van and fatally injured. Gardai at Sligo are investigating the accident.
In Co Westmeath, gardai were last night at the scene of a serious crash, involving a car and a lorry, between Kinnegad and Milltown Pass. Three injured people were removed to hospital.