Monday, January 05, 2009

Priests lock in

Attempted break-ins to the Parish House over the Christmas period have forced the priests living there to lock the outer doors of the building at night time.

It seems there were two attempts in the one night to enter the house, the first involving kicking at the back door into Fr Paddy Ryan's residence in the early hours of the morning. Fortunately, Fr Ryan was away at the time.

A further attempt was made at entry through the front door later towards morning, but failed when Fr Murphy got up to see what was going on.

As a result of the necessity to lock the outer doors, the only way of contacting the priests at night, for the moment, is by phone.