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Christmas Concerts: Quigleys …

From tomorrow week – Christmas week – there are many Concerts to vie for your attendance : Cloughmore Choir’s Christmas Wassail, Vocal Score (Tues/Wed Arts Centre) featuring Mary Bradley, Eithne Bell, Donal O’Hanlon, Lowrey Hodgett and several other local notables – and of course, The Quigley Christmas Concert (featured).

The next screening of Newry Film Club is on Wednesday night coming, 7th December at 7.30pm.

A whole month ago, I spotted a sign outside a door in Killeavey Road : Santa: Please Stop Here ! How those parents might curb imminent expectations, I’ll never know!

Others just take short-cuts!

I recently attended a Reading in Kilkeel Library by acclaimed local author Eoin McNamee. It was well worth the effort!

This letter was sent to the Kirkcaldy High School Principal’s office after the school had sponsored a lunch for Senior Citizens.

An elderly lady received a new radio at the lunch as a door raffle prize, and was writing to say thank you.

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When things go wrong, as they sometimes will

When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill

Most people, like me don’t start off the morning well, especially Monday morning. I was feeling pretty down myself, with good reason, as I went into B&Q for paint.

The local primary schoolchildren of today (Annalong and Moneydarragh Primary schools) composed this musical tribute to Jamie Crawford, and those other Mourne men who perished in the construction of the Silent Valley reservoir.

Minnie Caulfield was working in Kensington, London when the bad news of her brother Jamie arrived by telegram.

They’ll tell you that coming events are presaged in the present. Sure, if it wasn’t true, there’d be no need for prophets, seers or mediums. If you are disbelieving …

‘The very first thing I had to do in London,’ Minnie continued, ‘was to get my hair cut short and wash it in hot water with washing soda. Strong stuff, even to be putting on the clothes!

Isn’t it strange how customs have changed, even over the few decades we have recently lived through?

The photo below shows two happy Newry men on holiday in Cyprus last January (2010).

Austin Golding and Gerry Hobden grew up in Cecil Street.

Soon they moved to different parts of the town and lost touch.

Then they moved (separately) to England. In 2009, through the Newry Journal, they met again and decided to holiday together.

They wined and dined in the First & Last Bar in Paphos!

Gerry and his family now live in Darlington.

Austin and his wife in Bolton, Lancs.

He is back home regularly in Newry.

Recently he met Peter and Colette Murphy (late of England, now Rostrevor) on the boat to England.

Through the Journal, Austin is also in contact with Bernie Manley, once of Magennis Street, now resident in the USA.

Newry Journal is proud and happy to be a conduit for Newry exiles!