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Affordable Live-in Homecare

Affordable Live-in Homecare provides live in carers for the elderly in your area. If you are looking for a live-in carer for your relative, please call Eileen or Tom today on 087 991 6791 or 087 744 0729. Our website is


Safeguarding Concerns

If you have a child safeguarding concern or wish to raise a matter from the past you may contact any of the following:
Diocesan Designated Persons

The ‘Season of Creation 2021’

The ‘Season of Creation 2021’ begins 1st September and ends on 4th October. Read about it on www.catholicbishops.ie Maybe you can play a part this…


Cead Mile Failte:

Welcome to Nora Katrin Petkova, Ballylinch Stud, baptised into the family of God recently.

Anne / Marian:

The Book of Ecclesiastes, sometimes known as the Book of Qoheleth, tells us that ‘to everything there is a season’, and this weekend we mark the retirement…

Congratulations to Margaret McDonald

Congratulations to Margaret McDonald, formerly Margaret Moore, from Ballydonnell. Margaret lives in England and celebrated her hundredth birthday on Monday 30th August.

The Cathedral Draw

The Cathedral Draw has been intermittent during the past year, with the country shutdown for several months and draws postponed. The last Draw of the current cycle…

First Communions / Confirmations:

We plan to celebrate First Communions here in Thomastown on two days, 11th, and 25th September at 12.00 noon. Confirmation will be held on Saturday 2nd October.…

‘The Eucharist

‘The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.’ (Pope Francis, in ‘The Joy of the Gospel’)


(Flor McCarthy SDB)

‘There is a religion of devotion, and a religion of commitment. Faith can be a crutch or a pair of wings. The Christian life is not about evasions, escapism, soft options, comfort. It is about the very opposite of these. The God who loves us, expects the best of us, nothing less. God gives us…