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Thought for the Week – Easter Moon

April 2, 2018 Murroe Website Editor Thought for the Week No comments

Isn’t great that the date for Easter- the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ – is determined by nature, by the cycle of the moon and not by financial or other considerations.

There have been several attempts to settle the date of Easter. In England, The Easter Act 1928 was established fix the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. The law was not implemented, although it remains on the UK Statute Law Database. In 1997 the World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the Easter calculation to replace an equation-based method of calculating Easter with direct astronomical observation. The reform was proposed to be implemented in 2001, but was never adopted.

It was at the First Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) that the date of Easter was established as being the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, the full moon that occurs on or soonest after the 21^st March which is taken to be the Spring equinox – equinox meaning equal day and night – a time of balance between light and darkness.

The date of Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as its position in the calendar. The Easter Vigil mirrors what is happening in the natural world. The paschal moon lights up the sky and shines from evening till morning taking over from the sun, giving us a day when there is no night.

As Christmas is tied to the winter solstice when the light begins to conquer darkness, Easter is tied to the full moon of the spring equinox; the day without night.

The Easter fire and the Paschal candle turn the darkness of night into one endless day at the Easter Vigil. Easter Sunday becomes a day without night, filled with the light of the Risen Lord.

Murroe / Boher Newsletter 1st April 2018

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Parish Clergy: Fr Loughlin Brennan Fr. Tom Ryan

Tel. 386227 Mobile 087 9814051 Tel. 352223 Mobile 087 6291557

Anniversaries: Murroe

Mary Bourke and Deceased members of the Bourke Family 9am this Sunday

Willie Holmes and Sr Labori and Sr Bridget and

Mary, James and Joan Ryan 11.30am this Sunday

James McNamara 7pm next Saturday

Jimmy Rabbitte and

James Corbett 11.30am next Sunday

Boher

Michael and Peggy Finucane 10am this Sunday

Lily Fenton and

Pat Tobin 10am next Sunday

May They Rest in Peace

Eucharistic Ministers Next Weekend: Boher: Eamon Tuohey.

Murroe: Bridget Hayes 7pm, Josie Meade 9am, Breda Berkery 11.30am.

Masses for coming week: No Mass in Murroe or Boher on Monday. Boher 9.30am Tuesday and Thursday. Murroe 10am Wednesday and Friday

Divine Mercy Sunday is on Sunday next 8^th April. Ceremonies on the day commence at 2.30pm and will include Mass. A novena for Divine Mercy has commenced since Good Friday. Details may be found in Murroe Church Porch.

Church Windows Fundraising: Jimmy Buckley concert takes place on Sunday April 29^th. Some Tickets are available for this. A lot of work has had to be done in both Church’s recently, so any funds raised will be gratefully received.

Cake Sale – Murroe Boher Camogie Club will hold a fundraising cake sale on Easter Sunday at 10.30am in Boher Community Centre and 12 noon in Murroe GAA Clubhouse. Please support our club and enjoy the tasty treats our members have baked!

Childminder required to look after 3 school going children aged 8,9 and 10 years of age on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in children’s own home in the Murroe area. Must have own car. Please contact 086 054 5515 for more information.

Abington Church: The friends of Abington Church are holding an evening of music and song on Friday April 6^th at 8pm. In the church. This features two groups, “The Ukealadies” and “Zion”. Proceeds are in aid of the Eldorado Textile Project in San Paulo, Brazil with which a local volunteer, and member of the Church, is involved. This is a community project in a deprived area which depends on voluntary donations to continue. Admission €10. For details Tel.087-2964287.

#DiL2018: Registration for the Pieta House Darkness into Light has opened. For Murroe registration please go to: https://dil.pieta.ie/event-information/venues/murroe. The route will be from the Muintir na Tíre Hall in Murroe, left at The Monument, in the back gate of Glenstal Abbey and out the front gates back to the hall. We plan to have refreshments for all walkers and look forward to seeing you there on the morning. Please register as soon as possible – Early bird registration ends 4^th April. If you register by 4^th May, 10^th Anniversary t-shirts will be delivered to you directly, with no guarantee of you getting your t-shirt on time if you register after that date. If you have any queries please contact any of Tony Breen, Ita Richardson, Anne O’ Connor, Geraldine O’Brien, Helena Hayes or send an e-mail to dilmurroe18@gmail.com (new address this year!).

An Opportunity for Insight, Ideas and Inspiration at the Ballyhoura North East District Forum. The Ballyhoura North East District Forum will take place on Tuesday April 10^th at 7.30pm at the Community Centre in Pallasgreen. The Main focus on the Night will be on the upcoming funding opportunities available to Communities in the coming months. This District Forum meeting will give the opportunity to look at the local issues in common across local enterprise, your community, environment and social inclusion matters, and then agree on actions to progress onward towards innovative solutions. It’s also your chance to meet the Ballyhoura Development staff and gain insight on various projects and initiatives delivered and see how these ideas could inspire your local Community. For further information contact John Hassett Development Officer, Ballyhoura Development CLG, LCFE East limerick campus, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, Tel: 061-387040 jhassett@ballyhoura.org

Lotto Results for 25/03/18 -5,13,21,22- No Jackpot Winner. €20 Lucky dips Mary O’Brien, Tom Hickey, Helen O’Brien & Biddy & Donal. Next week’s Jackpot 5,800. Draw in The Valley.

The Valley Golf Society, “Outing kindly Sponsored by The Valley Inn”, held its first outing of 2018 at Roscrea golf club. The results are as follows, 1st: Tom Ryan, Declan Barry, Joe Cunningham, Declan Kett. 2nd: Bill Dunlea, Kieran Kett, Seamus Lynch, Liam Ryan. 3rd: Darragh Ryan, Jim Dunlea, Adam Newman, Brian Quinn. Next outing will be held at Dundrum Golf Club on the 21/04/2018 at 11 AM.

Murroe AFC Notes: A brief update on our 50^th anniversary Dinner Dance. Tickets are now available from any committee member for the clubs 50^th Anniversary Dinner Dance in the Castletroy Park Hotel on Friday May 4^th at 7-30pm. A great night celebrating the clubs 1^st 50 years with music by local band TRAFFIC and DJ till late. Tickets are €30 and can be got from Jimmy Quinn 087-2334561 Noel Regan 086-8109682 or ANY committee member.

Murroe/Boher Camogie Club Best of luck to our U16 and intermediate teams who start their seasons this weekend. On Friday our U16 team lined out against Galbally to kick off their league. On Sunday our Intermediate team will play Patrickswell at 6pm in Boher in the first round of the league. Please come out and support our girls. Best of luck also to Katie Heelan, Karen Cunningham, Megan Kiely, Sinead McElligott and Edel Cunningham who are part of the Limerick minor team who played Offaly in their final game of the All Ireland series on Saturday. Best of luck to all our girls in all their games.

Thought for the Week – The Passion of Jesus

March 26, 2018 Murroe Website Editor Thought for the Week No comments

We are in Holy Week, the week of the Lord’s Passion.

Passion comes from the Latin word passio, meaning passive, non-activity, absorbing something rather than doing anything. The Passion of Jesus is about what was being done to him.

Jesus public life falls into two parts – three years of active ministry – teaching and preaching healing and performing miracles, eating with sinners and debating with church authorities. He was a busy man with sometimes barely time to eat and at moments his family thought he had gone mad…

Following this period of intense activity comes his passion and death where he no longer does things but is having things done to him. He is arrested in the garden of Gethsemane, led to the high priest and taken to Pilate…he is beaten, humiliated stripped of his clothes and nailed to a cross and dies. He is the one to whom things are being done.

Strange that we are saved by his passion rather than by his active ministry of preaching and doing miracles…

We all have our holy week – we have our own Jerusalem to enter where ever that might be and we all experience our passion – give way to things being done to us. This is a deep challenge for those of us who feel we should be organising our own salvation – the cross teaches us that we achieve as much in our passivities as in our activities …maybe more…

When we are no longer in charge – when we are beaten down by whatever, humiliated and suffering we are undergoing our own passion and like Jesus we have in that the opportunity to give our love and ourselves to others.

Murroe / Boher Newsletter – 25 Mar 2018

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Parish Clergy: Fr Loughlin Brennan Fr. Tom Ryan

Tel. 386227 Mobile 087 9814051 Tel. 352223 Mobile 087 6291557

Recent Deaths: Patrick (Patsy) Rainsford, Clonbealy, Newport, Co. Tipperary formerly of Cappanahanna, Murroe.

Anniversaries: Murroe

Bernard Carey 7pm this Saturday

Foley Family, Glenstal and

Seamus and Mary Clarke 9am this Sunday

Mary Bourke and Deceased members of the Bourke Family 9am next Sunday

Willie Holmes and Sr Labori and Sr Bridget and

Mary, James and Joan Ryan 11.30am next Sunday

Boher

William and Christine Bolster and

Nellie Ryan 10am this Sunday

Michael and Peggy Finucane 10am next Sunday

May They Rest in Peace

Eucharistic Ministers Next Weekend: Boher: Marie O’Flynn.

Murroe: Elizabeth Power-Lynch 7pm, Mary O’Brien 9am, Breda White 11.30am.

Masses for coming week: Boher – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 9.30am.

Murroe – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 10am.

No Adoration in Boher or Murroe this coming week.

Confessions will be available following 9.30am Mass in Boher and 10am Mass in Murroe on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Holy Week Ceremonies: We ask you to please take note of the times for the Holy Week Ceremonies Murroe and Boher

Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lords Supper 7.30pm

Good Friday: Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3.00pm

Stations of the Cross 7.30pm

Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil 8.00pm

Church Windows Fundraising: Jimmy Buckley concert has had to be postponed due to the bad weather. It is re-scheduled for Sunday April 29^th. Tickets will remain valid for that date.

Coffee Morning for Cancer Research at Madaboy House (close to Abington Creamery) will take place this year on Saturday 21^st April from 10.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Please consider supporting this worthy cause in an effort to fund new and innovative breakthrough therapies and treatments for many types of cancer. Prepare to be pampered with the best in home baking treats and entertainment by the popular Ukealadies ensemble, following on last year’s success! Make it a date for your diary.

Slieve Felim Energy Communities: An information meeting will be held in Cappamore Community Centre on Wednesday 28^th March @ 8pm. This meeting will explain about 2018 SEAI home upgrade grants scheme which will start shortly. This scheme covers all of the East Limerick area. Works: Attic/wall insulation, heating systems, windows and doors. Warmer more comfortable homes guaranteed.

Social Dance in Millennium Centre Caherconlish, on Saturday 31^st March. Music by Chris Dallat. Tea Served. Admission €10. Great night guaranteed.

The Killinure Parents Council would like to say a huge thank you to everyone in the community who came and supported our 80’s Table Quiz on Friday 9^th of March and then went home afterwards with sore feet from all the dancing to the fantastic music provided by Paul Prenderville (Live95FM). Following the Quiz, we had a raffle of the most wonderful spot prizes which were donated by exceptionally generous sponsors. Last – but certainly not least – thank you so much to the amazing Pa McGrath’s pub for hosting the Quiz. Amy and Denis could not have been more helpful. Roll on next year!!!!!!

Boher Community Development Association will participate again in the JP McManus Team Limerick Clean Up initiative. Large numbers of our community have participated every year in this event to gather bags of litter around Boher. We hope you will join us again on Good Friday, 30 March, at 9am, at Boher Community Centre.

Lotto Results for 19/03/18 -7,18,27,32- No Jackpot Winner. €50 Lucky dips Ann McNamara, John Hogan & Majella Dunlea. €20 Lucky Dips Mary Harnett, Jer O’Sullivan, Brendan Quirks & Niamh Clohessy. Next week’s Jackpot 5,700. Draw in O’Neills.

Bord na nOg: Murroe Boher Bord na nOg are having their annual Bag Packing Fundraiser in Dunnes Stores on Childers Road on Friday 30^th March and Saturday 31^st of March. We are looking for volunteers to help us with is vital fundraiser. This money is for the day to day expenses of the Bord na nOg. Please contact any team coach of committee member to lend your support.

Murroe/Boher Camogie Club Best of luck to Ciara Oliver, Sarah Jane Flynn, Orlaith Hickey and Sophie Quaid who are part of the Ahane-Murroe/Boher team taking part in the Limerick Feile competition this weekend. The Semi Finals and Finals take place on Sunday from 10am in Ballyagran. Next weekend sees the start of our club season with our u16 team playing on Friday at home and our intermediate team also lining out at home on Easter Sunday. Please check our Facebook page for fixtures. Next weekend we will be holding a fundraising cake sale on Easter Sunday at 10.30am in Boher Community Centre and 12noon in Murroe Clubhouse. Please support our club. Next Saturday (31^st) sees our monthly clothes collection take place from 7.-30 – 8pm in Murroe Clubhouse, if you have any old clothes please consider donating them to our club.

Darkness into Light -Murroe – Sat 12th May 2018 – 4.15AM

March 23, 2018 Murroe Website Editor News, What's on No comments

DiL2018: Registration for the Pieta House Darkness into Light has opened.

For Murroe registration please go to: https://dil.pieta.ie/event-information/venues/murroe.

The route will be from the Muintir na Tíre Hall in Murroe, left at The Monument, in the back gate of Glenstal Abbey and out the front gates back to the hall. We plan to have refreshments for all walkers and look forward to seeing you there on the morning.

Please register as soon as possible – Early bird registration ends 4^th April. If you register by 4^th May, 10^th Anniversary t-shirts will be delivered to you directly, with no guarantee of you getting your t-shirt on time if you register after that date.

If you have any queries please contact any of Tony Breen, Ita Richardson, Anne O’ Connor, Geraldine O’Brien, Helena Hayes or send an e-mail to dilmurroe18@gmail.com (new address this year!).

Thought for the Week – let the light shine through.

March 20, 2018 Murroe Website Editor Thought for the Week No comments

We are celebrating three great saints these days – Patrick, Joseph and Benedict’s passing on the 21st March. We are all tasked with becoming saints.

Saint Basil summed up the paradoxical nature of this vocation, “we are creatures”, he wrote, “but we are creatures who have received the command to become divine”. Creatures who are meant to become divine. Quite a challenge.

There is a story I like about sancts – about becoming divine.

A young boy was in church with his mother. She was lighting candles and visiting shrines.The young boy was running round, examining everything.

After a while, all went quiet. She looked up and there he was standing, looking up at a stained glass window. The sun was streaming through and there he stood, fascinated by light and the different colours dancing on the floor.

His mother approached him and he began asking questions. There was a statue to the right and he asked her who that was. “That is Holy God”. Close by was another statue and again he enquired who it was. “That’s God’s holy mother”, his mother told him. Next he pointed at the stained-glass windows, “who are they”? And she said, “they are the saints”. The boy pondered and said no more.

The next day he was in religion class and the topic for discussion happened to be saints. ‘What was a saint?’, the class was asked.

Quick as a flash, our friend put up his hand. “They are the ones that let the light shine through”. May we all learn to let the light shine through.

Murroe / Boher Newsletter 18 Mar 2018

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Parish Clergy: Fr Loughlin Brennan Fr. Tom Ryan

Tel. 386227 Mobile 087 9814051 Tel. 352223 Mobile 087 6291557

Recent Deaths: Timothy Nihill, Ballyvalode, Oola

Carol McKie (nee Culhane) (Garanbawn, Murroe, formerly of Norwood Park, Limerick. Funeral Mass this Monday at 11.30am.

Anniversaries: Murroe

Eileen O’Malley 11.30am this Sunday

Timmy Landers 10am this Tuesday

Bernard Carey 7pm next Saturday

Foley Family, Glenstal and

Seamus and Mary Clarke 9am next Sunday

Boher

William and Christine Bolster and

Nellie Ryan 10am next Sunday

May They Rest in Peace

Eucharistic Ministers Next Weekend: Boher: Eilish Bartley.

Murroe: Evelyn Lorigan 7pm, Michael O’Loughlin 9am, Breda Byrnes 11.30am.

No Morning Mass in Murroe or Boher this Monday. Funeral Mass in Murroe at 11.30am on Monday.

Milford Care Centre wish to thank most sincerely all who contributed to the Churchgate Collection last weekend. The amount collected was €651.63

We wish to thank all who supported the recent Coffee Morning in aid of Zambia held in Boher Community Centre. The amount raised was €600.

Book Launch by Brian P Murphy Osb, “The Life and Tragic Death of Winnie Barrington” The story of the Barrington Family in Glenstal Castle, Limerick, c. 1800 – 1925 will take place in the Muintir na Tire Hall on Sat March 24th, 4.30pm 6.30pm.

Madaboy House Annual Coffee Morning – In Aid of Cancer Research: Please keep Saturday 21^st April free, from 10.30 am to 1 pm, for a delightful offering of tea, coffee, treats, sweets and music in choice surroundings. This is a very worthy cause.

Church Windows Fundraising: Jimmy Buckley concert has had to be postponed due to the bad weather. It is re-scheduled for Sunday April 29^th. Tickets will remain valid for that date.

Energy Grants for Attic Insulation, Cavity Wall insulation, Oil and Gas boilers, Windows, Doors etc. Information evening in Cappamore Community Centre on Wednesday March 28^th at 8pm.

Senator Maria Byrne will hold her clinic on Friday 23^rd March at 3.00 pm in Pa McGraths Pub, Boher: 4.00 pm in the Fitzgerald Room in Murroe Hall

Ballyhoura: An Opportunity for Insight, Ideas and Inspiration at the Ballyhoura North East District Forum. The Ballyhoura North East District Forum will take place on Tuesday April 10^th at 7.30pm at the Community Centre in Pallasgreen. The Main focus on the Night will be on the upcoming funding opportunities available to Communities in the coming months. This District Forum meeting will give the opportunity to look at the local issues in common across local enterprise, your community, environment and social inclusion matters, and then agree on actions to progress onward towards innovative solutions. It’s also your chance to meet the Ballyhoura Development staff and gain insight on various projects and initiatives delivered and see how these ideas could inspire your local Community. For further information contact John Hassett Development Officer, Ballyhoura Development CLG, LCFE East limerick campus, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, Tel: 061-387040 jhassett@ballyhoura.org

The Valley Golf Society will start the 2018 season off, with an outing to Roscrea Golf Club on Saturday 24^th March 2018 at 12 mid-day. New Members most welcome. For more information contact Gerry on 087/2405417, Tom on 087/2264562, or Bill on 087/7207223.

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Lotto Results for 11/03/18 -12,17,28,30- No Jackpot Winner. €20 Lucky dips Darren Greaney, Aedin Shields, John Maher & John O’Connor. Next week’s Jackpot 5,600. Draw in Crokers.

Bord na nOg: Murroe Boher Bord na nOg are delighted to announce that we are hosting an Easter Camp on Monday 26^th, Tuesday 27^th & Wednesday 28^th March from 10.00am to 13.00pm. This camp is open to 6-13 years old with our u6’s welcome each day from 12.00 -13.00pm. (no fee). The camp will be held in Harty Park Murroe. The cost of the camp is €25 per person, with each camper receiving a new Club Windcheater and new Club socks. The camp is open to registered members only. To book your place, please contact Rory on 086 3176824.

Murroe/Boher Camogie Club Best of luck to Megan Kiely, Karen Cunningham, Katie Heelan, Sinead McElligott and Edel Cunningham who are part of the Limerick minor team who play Tipperary in the third round of the All Ireland Championship in UL on Saturday at 1pm. Good luck girls. Well done also to Katie Heelan and Sinead McElligott who were part of the St John the Baptist School, Hospital who won the Senior C Camogie All Ireland competition during the week, brilliant stuff girls!

Thought for the Week – Develop our moral imagination

March 12, 2018 Murroe Website Editor Thought for the Week No comments

Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, is not about climate change as is sometimes suggested. It has wider concerns. Pope Francis accepts the scientific opinion that most warming is attributable to human activity and that there is an “urgent”need to reduce carbon emissions, by “substituting for fossil fuels and developing sources of renewable energy.

So what is it about?

It is about creation and our relation to it – about the sacredness of all life.
It is about bio-diversity and the other species with which we share this planet. He urges us to be pro-life in the widest possible sense and stop driving other species into extinction.
It is about ecological destruction and the urgent need to deal with it ! In No 21 he doesn’t mince his words – “the earth is beginning to look more like an immense pile of filth”!
It is about social justice – the fact that the poor who suffer most from damage to the environment. ‘Caring for our Common Home’, is a matter of social justice.

For two thousand years we have focussed on our relationship with God and other humans. We are clear that it is wrong to steal, to kill, to commit adultery, worship false Gods. But it is also morally wrong to drain marshes, kill species, cut down rain forests. Love God, your neighbour but also nature!

Pope Francis has stated in Laudato Si that damage to the environment is sinful – pollution of the land and of water, the loss of biodiversity, destruction of forests, depletion of non-renewables, are all sins. The challenge is to recognise them as sins – to develop our moral imagination sufficiently so that we begin to see these as actions for what they are – sins. We don’t believe it yet – I find it hard to believe.

Murroe / Boher Newsletter 11th March 2018

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Parish Clergy: Fr Loughlin Brennan Fr. Tom Ryan

Tel. 386227 Mobile 087 9814051 Tel. 352223 Mobile 087 6291557

Recent Deaths: Nora Coleman, Knockanerra, Murroe

Cillian Ryan, Cork Rd., Newport, Co. Tipperary

Sarah (Sadie) O’ROURKE (née O’Donovan), Dundrum, Dublin / Murroe, Limerick

Anniversaries: Murroe

John Coughlan and

James and Kathleen Doyle and

Pauline Tobin and

John Joe Gleeson 7pm this Saturday

Esther Healy 9am this Sunday

Pat Ryan 11.30am this Sunday

Eileen O’Malley 11.30am next Sunday

Boher

Michael Tierney 10am this Sunday

Eileen Hickey 9.30am next Thursday

May They Rest in Peace

Eucharistic Ministers Next Weekend: Boher: Kathleen Walters, Saturday. Liz Barron, Sunday. Murroe: Bridget Hayes 7pm Friday. Josie Meade 9am Saturday, Tom Seaver 11.30am Saturday. Breda Fitzpatrick 7pm Saturday, Suzanne Barron 9am Sunday, Saundra Ni Chiosog 11.30am Sunday.

Can we ask people NOT to lean on the shelves over the radiators. One has already been pulled from the wall.

St Patricks Day: Vigil mass in Murroe Church Friday 7pm. Saturday: Boher 10am. Murroe 9am and 11.30am.

Adoration in Murroe will finish at 6pm of Friday evening, eve of St Patricks Day.

Church Windows Fundraising: Jimmy Buckley concert has had to be postponed due to the bad weather. It is re-scheduled for Sunday April 29^th. Tickets will remain valid for that date.

Social Dance in Millennium Centre Caherconlish, on Friday 16^th March. Music by Brose Walsh. Tea Served. Admission €10. Great night guaranteed.

Murroe Tidy Towns had to re-schedule their Table Quiz. It now takes place on Friday 16^th March at 8pm in the Valley Inn. Table of 4 is €20. Raffle on the night with lots of spot prizes. Your support would be very much appreciated.

Would you like to treat somebody to a nice Easter present with a ticket to Brendan Shine in concert in the Community Centre Cappamore on Friday, March 23^rd, tickets €20. All proceeds to St Michael’s Day Care Centre which covers all East Limerick. Tickets from Anne Marie Ryan on 087 6830744 and Helen in the post office.

Murroe Boher Historical Society will present this illustrated talk looking at early Irish Christianity on Thursday 15^th of March in the Muintir Na Tire Hall Murroe Co Limerick at 8.30. Alf Monaghan’s illustrated talk looks at the history of early Irish Christianity from a different perspective – a Mediterranean perspective. It provides a tantalizing glimpse under the veil of history. It asks many questions and confounds some of the accepted theories about the history of early Christianity in Ireland. Recent Irish discoveries such as the Fadden More Psalter, an Egyptian papyrus found in an ancient book of psalms from a Tipperary bog, are clues pointing to a more substantial eastern Mediterranean influence. It traces links with ancient Egypt, connects Irish monasticism with the desert fathers and the early Irish Church with the Coptic Church. All are welcome

Community First Responder Boher are holding their AGM on Wednesday 14th March at 8pm, in Boher Community Centre. Everyone with an interest in Community First Responders are encouraged to attend as there have been a number of changes since CFR Boher was set up in 2016. Even if you are not available as a volunteer, your experience could be very valuable to the smooth operation of CFR Boher.

Boher Community Development Association wishes to thank all those who supported our recent Parish social. It was a very enjoyable night and a great success. The Committee would like to thank sincerely, those who attended the event, bought tickets to support the event and supplied items for auction –the Quirke family who supplied trees for blocks, the volunteers who cut timber for the auction, Roches Feeds, Liffey Mills Nenagh, Dan O’Connor, Dairy Gold, Pallasgreen , John O’Connell Crecora Mills, Rearcross Quarries and Kerry Agribusiness, Herbertstown, Eddie and Marie Hennessy, Michael and Margaret O’Reilly and John Kennedy Dunnes Stores. Sincere thanks also to the staff of the Millennium Centre, Caherconlish, Johnny and Niall Skehan and all who donated spot prizes. €4,800 was raised through this event for the upkeep of our community centre.

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Lotto Results for 04/03/18 -4,15,19,25- No Jackpot Winner. €20 Lucky dips Des Laffan, Margaret Fenton, Hazel Saidha & Diane Cummins. Next week’s Jackpot 5,500. Draw in Pa McGraths.

Murroe Boher GAA: DVD orders for victorious Intermediate final and replay are now been taken. €12 for drawn game. €15 for replay. Please contact Denis Mulcahy on 086-6019233.

Murroe/Boher Camogie Club will be holding a bake sale/coffee morning on Easter Sunday, April 1st. It will take place in Boher Community Centre at 10.30am and Murroe Clubhouse at 12 noon. All support and donations would be greatly appreciated.