Christmas Mass times
Christmas Eve:

• 5pm Lahinch 
• 7pm  Kilshanny
• 9pm Lisdoonvarna (candlelight)

Christmas Day:

• 8am Toovahera 
• 9am Clouna 
• 10am Lisdoonvarna 
• 11am Doolin 
• 12 noon Ennistymon 

Newsletter

PARISH OF LISDOONVARNA, KILSHANNY, TOOVAHERA, AND DOOLIN. December 20/21, 2025. Fr. Robert Mc Namara PP, 065 7074142, 087 0949030 lisdoonpp@galwaydiocese.ie Lisdoonvarnaparish.ie

CORPUS CHRISTI, LISDOONVARNA 10am: Flor and Alice O' Sullivan and deceased family members, Valentia Island. William and Nora Hillary and deceased family members, Caherbarna. Austin, Anne, and Michael Mc Namara. Baby Sean Kelly, his granny Teresa Kelly, Uncle Pat, and beloved mother Mary. Teresa and Paul Davoren, their son Jimmy and daughter Mary Fitzgerald. Mary and Carmel Finn. John Conolin, 6th anniversary. Brian O' Loughlin, Cahercloggane, 9th anniversary.

Next week: Vincent and Brian Gibbons. Tommy, Mary, and Gerry Howley, late of Bog Road, 25th and 4th anniversary.

Monday, December 29th, 9.30am Lisdoonvarna: Phyllis Mc Namara and Peadar Clair, both birthday remembrances.

Our recently deceased: John Mc Carthy, Lahinch and Kilshanny.

7pm Saturday evening Masses in December:

Toovahera, December 20th: Maura and Sonny Davoren, and the deceased of the Linnane family.

7pm Saturday evening Masses in January:

Doolin: Nora O' Leary, Boherboy.

Kilshanny: Diane Mc Mahon, First anniversary. Patrick and Mary Thynne. Andrew and Nora Thynne. Geraldine Kelly, Slievenagry, First anniversary.

Toovahera: no booking as yet.

THANKYOU FOR LAST WEEK'S COLLECTION: euro 1272.

CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE:

We welcome Fr. Oliver Ryan back to us.

Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24th: 5pm in Lahinch, (as well as the most important person, Baby Jesus, whose birthday it is, there may be another special guest coming as well children!)

7pm in Kilshanny, 9pm in Lisdoonvarna (candlelight). (We remember with love Holly O' Connor, and Christy Bryan, Portarlington).

Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25th:

8am in Toovahera, 9am in Clouna, 10am in Lisdoonvarna, 11am in Doolin (Lala and John Shannon), and 12 noon in Ennistymon.

Mass on St. Stephen's Day in Lahinch will be at 7pm, not 10am.

TAP AND GO SYSTEM: we have introduced a tap and go facility for parish offerings. The unit is located in the front porch of Corpus Christi Church, Lisdoonvarna. Thank you very much to the Parish Finance Committee for their hard work on this. There are fixed amounts of euro 5, 10, 20, and 50, and also the option to choose your own amount. Donations go into the number one Church Maintenance Account, for the heating, lighting, insuring and general upkeep of our four heritage churches.

CHRISTMAS DUES: please use the envelopes provided if you don't use the boxes. Thank you for your support.

SINCERE THANKS to Hilary Nestor, Kilshanny and USA, for her kind gift of vestments to Kilshanny church in memory of her deceased loved-ones.

I would like to say a sincere thank you to all involved in my 30th anniversary celebrations last Wednesday night. Thank you for your cards, good wishes, and donations to Mary's Meals, which exceeded 3,000 euro, enabling 127 school-going children to be fed for a year. Thank God. Thank you also to the Parish Council and Finance Committee for their lovely gift of vestments. Failte abhaile to anyone who is home for Christmas, and I wish you all a blessed, enjoyable, and safe Christmas and great times please God in 2026.