SNIPPET IN TIME - SLANE AND COLLON NOTES - FROM OCTOBER 1953
REV. FR. CAFFREY. C.C. College Hill, was admitted to the Mater Hospital. Dublin, on Friday, suffering from injuries to his collar bone, received when he was thrown from his horse at College Hill.
His many friends will join with me in wishing him well again soon.
WE WISH “GOD SPEED” to Miss Bernadette Wogan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Wogan, Davidstown, Slane, who left for Cabra, Clarence Rock, South Australia, recently, She will enter the Dominican Convent. Her parents received a rare shock when news of the train disaster at Harrow reached them on Wednesday, but luckily the train on which their daughter was travelling had passed through the station some twenty minutes before the tragedy occurred. e
SOME MEMBERS of Slane Guild I.C.A. passed on valuable hints on upholstery which they had acquired at a recent course which they attended, to the members in general at a demonstration which was held in the New Hall on Tuesday night. The demonstrators displayed an excellent knowledge of their subject and the Guild as a whole will benefit from the demonstration.
BEAUPARC DRAMA CLASS elected the following committee when they held their annual general meeting recently: — President. Very Rev. Fr. Plunket, P.P., Yellow Furze; vicepresident, Rev. Fr. Gibney, C.C., do.; chairman, Mr. J. Harding; secretary and treasurer, Mr. J. Farrell. Committee—Misses J. Farrell, M. Raleigh, N. Reilly and J. Farrell, Messrs. J. Harding, W. Deniver, J. Boylan, E. Harding and M. Reilly.
The Group has been twelve years in existence, during which time members have come and gone, succeeding newcomers bringing additional lustre to the line. All through these years, one man at least remained to coach the members and to urge them on to greater efforts. I refer to Willie Denver. This year his services will again be forthcoming, and rehearsals have already commenced on the popular “The New Gosson.”
SINCERE SYMPATHY has been extended to Mr. John Phelan, Jeanville, Slane, on the death of his sister. Sister M. Aiden Phelan .which occurred at the Brigidine Convent, Tullow, last week. She had spent all her life at Tullow and was a Golden Jubilarian. Another sister of Mr. Phelan’s is Sister M. Lazerian, Mercy Convent, Sklbbereen, while many other members of his family also gave their lives to the service of God.
MISS PHYLLIS O’CONNELL. I.C.A. Organlsr, attended the inaugural meeting of Rathkenny Guild on Friday night when there was an attendance of approximately 30 ladies. The Guild intends holding weekly meetings on Thursday nights, and new members are invited to come along and avail of the various demonstrations, etc., which the energetic committee intends to organise during the coming Winter months.
SLANE Manufacturing Co. will hold their annual dance in the Conyngham Arms Hotel, Slane, on Friday. Nov. 21st, and a big attendance is expected at this popular function.
COLLON
CONGRATULATIONS are extended to Mr. Patrick Browne on having passed with distinction his second year medical at the Royal College of Surgeons. He is at present a resident student at the Meath Hospital, Dublin. This brilliant young man Is the only son of Mr. Thomas Browne, general merchant, Main St., Collon.
A COLLISION took place between a cyclist and a lorry at the Oriel Road on Thursday evening last. The cyclist, Mr. Richard Brennan, Oriel Road, was turning into the lane leading to his home when he collided with a lorry driven by Mr. T. J. McNally, 1 Dyer St.. Drogheda.
THE F.C.A. regained a foothold in the village with the enlistment of four Collon youths at the Sluagh Hall, Drogheda, on Friday night last. They are Anthony Brady, Sean Brady, Paul Carr and Oliver Johnston. They will train in the Battalion headquarters, where it is hoped they will make steady progress during the next few months under the capable guidance of Capt. W. A. Mulligan, Training Officer for South Louth.