‘Miracle Cures’ at Healing Mass

July 1992

Eircom has assured people that it will be only phone kiosks earning so little that will be removed.

They point out too that some of the 15 kiosks to be removed are in areas currently served by two kiosks, so there will still be one available to people in those places.

The company itself declined to say that the growing popularity of mobile phones is contributing to the downturn in payphone usage, saying instead that ‘a variety of factors’ are at play. be willing to accept pedestrianisation, but not in its current form’.

Cllr Padge Reck, who had previously defended the trial period, said he now supported the idea of stopping it.

He hoped that the next step would be for the committee to go to the traders and ask how many car parks should be provided to make pestrianisation acceptable to them.

Cllr Avril Doyle said: ‘we are not abandoning pedestrianisation. We are just going back to the negotiating tables again.’

The meeting between the Traffic Management Committee and the traders has been fixed for next Monday night. Reports of ‘miracle cures’ were rife throughout Wexford town this week, following an astonishing Healing Mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception last Monday.

From early on Monday afternoon, people flocked to the Church for the service, and by the starting time of 7 p.m., more than 1,200 people had crammed into the buidling.

The Mass was celebrated by America’s famous healing priest, Fr. Peter Rookey, who has earned widespread international acclaim for his healing ability.

According to Fr. Hugh O’Byrne, who attended part of the service, people from all over the southeast travelled to Wexford for the Healing Mass, after hearing of a similar service which was held in Waterford the previous evening.

The congregation were united in prayer at the three-hour ceremony and many were astounded at the happenings during the Mass.

It was reported that three wheelchair users actually stood up and walked after Fr. Rookey laid his hands on them and prayed.

Local boy, Patrick Mulligan, was one of the people who discarded his wheelchair and walked down the aisle. Patrick has been undergoing exercises to help him walk for the past number of years. However, Monday night saw him walk in public for the very first time. It was a proud occasion for the Mulligan family, and the congregation showed their delight by bursting into applause.

Fr Hugh O’Byrne agreed that Fr. Rookey is a man with an exceptional gift for healing. ‘He is also a highly respected and humble man,’ he said, ‘ and I do believe that the power of prayer should never be underestimated.’