May 4, 2020

Covid-19: Raising funds for charity under pandemic restrictions

Author: Patsy McGarry

Saturday was to be a very special day for 8-year-old Eloise McDonnell from Kilmovee, Co Mayo. She was to receive her First Holy Communion, but it was not to be. Along with thousands of other young people, her big day was postponed owing to Covid-19restrictions.
But, she decided to make it a big day anyhow, in a Communion dress as well.
Ok, it was borrowed from her older sister Lucia (10) who made her First Communion in those distant days, now described as “normal”, before most of us had even hea