Looking Back: Parish Centre opening, 2004
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| President McAleese opening the Parish Centre in 2004. Were you there? |
On 20 June 2004, Fr Andrew O'Sullivan escorted the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, to the altar in Kilcullen Parish Church, where she gave the First Reading at a mass, and then also read the Psalm, writes Brian Byrne. Afterwards she officially opened Kilcullen Parish Centre.
The Centre had been developed under the supervision of Fr Andrew, and the Parish Financial Committee of Noel Bergin, Nessa Dunlea, Philomena Griffin, Liam McDonnell, Evelyn McKenzie-Smith and others.
The work of converting the former Girls School, which had been vandalised and was in bad repair, was carried out by builder Tom Byrne.
Photographs from the event, which preceded the establishment of the Kilcullen Diary, can be seen here, uploaded later. They include pictures of the prior state of the building.
