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Upcoming Events
DIVISION BUSINESS MEETING TONIGHT (TUE 1/10) 7p ST, MICHAEL'S
DATES SET FOR PARISH RAFFLE SALE/RECRUITING
Raffle Sales/Membership Drives after Masses:
Jan 14-15, 2023 – St. Bridget’s; 5:30 pm Sat; 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 11:00 am Sun.
Jan 28-29, 2023 – St. Michael’s; 5:00 pm Sat; 7:45 am, 9:15 am, 11:15 am and 5 pm Sun.
Feb. 25-26, 2023 – St. Mary’s; 5:30 pm Sat; 9 am and 11 am Sun.
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100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War
11 January 40 Republicans burn the railway station in Sligo town, destroying it and badly damaging seven engines and forty carriages. The Great Southern and Western Railway Company releases a report detailing the damage Anti-Treaty forces have caused to their property over the previous six months; 375 lines damaged, 42 engines derailed, 51 over-bridges and 207 under-bridges destroyed, 83 signal cabins and 13 other buildings destroyed. In the same month, Republicans destroy the railway stations at Ballybunnion and Listowel.
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13 January Three Republican prisoners are executed in Dundalk. A crowd outside the jail to say the rosary but is dispersed when Free State troops open fire on them.
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Pro-Treaty/Free State/National Army/Regulars
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Anti-Treaty/IRA/Republican/Irregulars/Volunteers
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In Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity,
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