On the 2nd of April Kathleen Kelly, Rathmullan will celebrate her 101st birthday. The Tribune called to her home at Pier Road a few weeks ago for a chat. A woman of deep faith all her life she is delighted that her grand nephew Fr. Raymond McQuarrie is back in the parish as curate in Milford. She recalls being at his ordination in St. Peter’s Church, Milford in 2000 and little did she think then that he would be celebrating her 100th birthday Mass in her house as he did last April. Also there was his mother, Mary who has been a life long friend of Kathleen’s. Over the course of the last 100 years she visited all the holy places around Ireland and Europe from Knock, to Loudres, San Giovanni in Italy, Fatima and Medjorie and had always been very religious. “One day the late Fr. Patrick Muldoon in Rathmullan said that you can see God down The Walks, so that finished me with holy places when you can see God anywhere” she said.
