A busy day in St Mary’s International Garden of Remembrance in Thurles
Dr Martin Semple and his wife Joe Anne visit his Dad’s Memorial
Dr Martin Semple and his wife Joe Anne visit his Dad’s Memorial and the last resting place of his Dad the great man Tom Semple.
Dr Martin and Joe from Denver Colorado USA are also members of the Durlas Eile Eliogarty Memorial Committee.
They are also one of our main sponsors.
Dr Martin and Joe are also very interested and involved in future planning that will enhance what St Mary’s International Garden of Remembrance Thurles stands for Peace, Remembrance and Reconciliation that has put St Mary’s on a very high Standard.
Dr Martin and Joe Ann were very impressed with the overall maintenance he thanked Shane and Eugene Committee members and Yurie who is on a TUS Scheme with us.
Yurie is from Ukraine he is very helpful and very interested in what St Mary's is all about.
He is settling in very well with us. We are very happy to have him as part of our team. Thanks to Mr Tony Lanigan. TUS.
We could do with a few more people like Yurie to come and join us with the Maintenance and our Annual Ceremonies.
As Chairman on behalf of our committee, I thanked Dr Martin and Joe Ann for their loyalty and kindness over the years in helping us to maintain and to promote St Mary’s and what it stands for, the recognition we have received worldwide is down to people like Dr Martin, Joe, Ann and all our supporters and sponsors.
Later on that morning, Mr John Wort Chairman and Mr Eugene Scally accompanied by members of the British and Irish Campers Association were taken on a guided tour of St Mary’s International Garden of Remembrance.
The visiting guests were very impressed with all the memorials the history behind each individual Memorial was a tribute to their memory, what they believed in and what they died for peace at home and around the world.
This was the second visit by the Campers Association to St Mary’s International Garden of Remembrance.
Mr Wort thanked the visiting guests for taking the time to visit St Mary’s.
The leader of the group thanked Mr Wort for a most enjoyable and enlightening tour, he said that he would like to visit in the near future with his friends, to spend a bit more time researching the history of what he said was a very peaceful and historical garden of Remembrance.