Lough Derg pilgrims will miss Mary’s ‘happy face’


IT WAS the end of an era on St Patrick’s Purgatory Lough Derg recently when long-time staff member Mary McDaid retired from the pilgrimage island in Donegal. Mary had been coming to the island since 1977, but in 1988 the then staff member Fr Dick Mohan asked if she could help out on the island for three weeks as there was […]