Mornington

A SEISMIC SHIFT OR ONE OVER THE EIGHT?

Meath Co-Councillor Paddy Meade’s reference in last weeks’ issue of the Drogheda Independent that “the town land of Mornington runs to the edge of the Neptune hotel” (which is a fact) confirms my long-held belief that the Laytown & Bettystown golf club is actually in Mornington. Whatever about Bettystown which might have a squeak; how on earth did Laytown get into the equation? It would appear that the name Laytown and Bettystown came

into being around the 1890s at the founding of the golf club. Perhaps the good men of the founding committee may have had one over the eight and this may have had an effect of clouding their geographical knowledge. There is another possible reason but it’s highly unlikely, and that is that there could have been a seismic geographical shift in due northerly direction. As there has been no recording of this anywhere. We’ll have to go with the original assumption.

PARISH DIARY

Today Tues 26th, St Joseph’s youth priests society meeting will take place in the parish rooms at 8.pm.

Monday 2nd Oct, meeting for parents/guardians of children for confirmation will be held at Donacarney school hall.

HARVEST FESTIVAL

Sat/Sun 14th & 15th Oct are the dates for the harvest festival after all Masses. The fruits of the earth which sustains life will be available in the parish rooms.

We invite all the Community to participate and there will be a produce & cake sale after each Mass in the Parish Rooms. All gifts/ donations of homemade breads, cakes, jams, vegetables, fruit etc. welcome, and all proceeds will go the Meath Diocesan Primary Schools Twinning Project in Burma. Please let us know if you can bake bread/cakes or supply home grown produce. Your support will be much appreciated.

CHOIR

Children’s Choir resumes this Thursday 21st September 6pm-7pm in Mornington Church. Children from 3rd Class up are welcome.

EAST MEATH ACTIVE RETIREMENT

The East Meath Active Retirement group have resumed their weekly activities each Thursday afternoon in the St Mary’s Church of Ireland Parish rooms at 2.30p.m. New members are always welcome.

LOCAL HISTORY

A Local History and Genealogy (Family History) Course will get underway at the Drogheda Museum at the end of September. The course will run for six-weeks and will take place every Saturday from 10:30am until 12:30pm. Focussing on Family History and How to Research Local/Community History; the return of this popular course will be delivered by Historian and Archivist at the Drogheda Museum, Brendan Matthews and Genealogist Emmett Doran in association with the Old Drogheda Society and the Drogheda Museum at Millmount. For more details and/or to book a place on the course, contact the Drogheda Museum at 041-9833097.

OUTREACH PROGRAMMES

The Outreach Programme has resumed at St, Colmcilles GFC Piltown with the following events; Monday: Art 10.30am; Tuesday: Mindfulness 10.00am Wednesday: Ballroom Dancing 2.00pm; Thursday: Fitness & Nutrition 10.00am, Cards 8.00pm-10.00pm Friday: Conversational Irish 10am. Mature Movers 11.00am; Men’s Shed 10.00am. All Programmes are held in the St Colmcilles GFC Clubrooms Piltown Contact: Marian on 086 8125664 for further information.