The popular Community Challenge at Clare Garden Festival ‘Pop-Up Garden Community Challenge’ is now open for applications. The festival asks groups to create a small garden based on their interpretation of the theme ‘Gardeners Friends’ Garden’(the friends of course being all the beneficial animals and insects in the garden that help the gardener…

An Advent Giving Tree is situated in the Cathedral at the side of the Altar. Any of the following can be donated: Tea, coffee, sugar, Tayto, selection boxes, minerals, biscuits,

soup, jam, baked beans, cornflakes, custard,…

Triduum Mass Cards (Triduum of Masses offered on Christmas Day) and Parish Christmas Cards are now available from Parish Office.
Proceeds from cards towards: Cathedral Organ restoration fund.

Abbey Cluster Christmas Reconciliation Service

Forgiveness  Is Born

Monday 18th December

7.30-8.30pm Ennis Cathedral

 As part of our  next year, Cloughleigh Connect group have invited Mali & Trevor Ó Clochartaigh.  They are from An Cheathrú Rua in Connemara and have been involved in marriage preparation at Esker Monastery, near Athenry, for the last eighteen years. They have five children,…

Martin Shanahan from Quilty will be ordained a Deacon by Bishop Fintan Monahan in Ennis Cathedral on Sunday 26th November, the Feast of Christ the King, at 12 noon Mass. Martin will be ordained a Priest in the Summer of 2018 for service in…

Haven Horizons, An Garda Síochána and a team from St. Paul, Minnesota will be holding two public information events on ‘

The ​Blueprint for Safety model’. The vents will take place in the Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, on Tuesday 28^th November  at  11.00 am -1.00pm  and 19.00-20.30  (the same information will be delivered at both sessions).

The Blueprint for Safety is…

 VOICES FOR CANCER 30th NOVEMBER 2017:  Following last year’s hugely successful event, the 2nd Annual West Clare Charity Concert – Voices For Cancer, in aid of the West Clare Mini Marathon Cancer Care Centre, will take place on Thursday, 30th November in St. Mary’s Church, Carrigaholt, at 7:30pm. Tickets are €10.00 and will…

Aware, the national organisation providing support, education and information services for those impacted by depression and bipolar disorder, is urgently seeking 100 new volunteers. Aware relies on the passion and dedication of its volunteers to ensure that the organisation can continue to provide free support services nationwide, essential services that have a profound…

 We are holding a free “Men’s Health Screening and Information Evening” on Thursday 30^th November from 6pm-9pm in the Salthill Hotel in Galway.

This is being organised by the Prostate Cancer Support Nurse, the Daffodil Centre and the Health Promotion and Wellbeing Department of the HSE.

The topics covered…