Three Muskateers evicted by wedding singers.

Myself,Leo and Liam turned up at six on Friday for the Vigil.We were not alone.Two female singers were in the gallery singing the most delightful songs.Wedding songs seemingly.It is hard to pray with such melodious distraction.And the loudspeaker system in the Church is working to perfection as the volume was just as loud in the two side aisles as the body of the Church.
Not to be denied we went outside to the grotto of our Lady and said our prayers ,including a decade as Gaeilge.No bother at all.
Today one of the Julie Annes I raved about in an earlier blog was married in the Church.Julie Anne Boland that is.All the women  in our house were gawking through the windows at the style.She was smashing and he wasn't bad either.Both Anne and Ciaran were in high spirits and why shouldn't they be on the marriage of their only daughter.
We wish them luck.
Maybe our prayers are beginning to bear fruit .5,000 protesters at the Labour Party conference in Galway,some of whom were pepper sprayed ,is perhaps the initial spurt of serious protest against the economic carnage being inflicted on decent people by the austerity being slavishly imposed by the Coalition.