Just over 50 years later Fr Benedict (Benny) O’Shea, now Monsignor, returned to the Church of St Nicholas in Windgap to celebrate a thanksgiving Mass with.
An event to mark the 100th anniversary of the executions in Kilkenny barracks of Anti Treaty Volunteers on December 29, 1922 was recently held in the old St Mar.
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