{"id":208307,"date":"2025-11-30T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/208307\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:47:44","slug":"in-pictures-warm-welcome-to-killymard-community-as-pp-fr-sweeney-is-inducted-page-1-of-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/208307\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Warm welcome to Killymard community as PP Fr Sweeney is inducted &#8211; Page 1 of 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The community of Killymard gathered in St Mary\u2019s Church, on Saturday, November 22 for the Induction Mass of Fr James Sweeney as the new Parish Priest of Killymard. Click on the arrows to see a selection of photos from the evening<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fr_James_(1)-1764360167417.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" caption=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Mass was celebrated by Mons Kevin Gillespie, Diocesan Administrator, and was con-celebrated by Fr James Sweeney and Fr James Gillespie.<\/p>\n<p>We were delighted to be joined also by Rev Angus McCullogh, Rev John Montgomery, Ven David Huss and Rev Susan Elliott and her husband, and parishioners from Fr James\u2019 previous parishes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/pictures---videos\/1952834\/in-pictures-donegal-footballer-gavin-mulreany-cuts-the-ribbon-for-new-agri-store.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In Pictures &#8211; Donegal footballer Gavin Mulreany cuts the ribbon for new agri store<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The evening concluded with Fr James cutting the cake and tea and refreshments were enjoyed in the Community Room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/story-telling\/pictures---videos\/1951824\/aaron-langan-becomes-donegal-towns-most-recent-honorary-garda.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In Pictures &#8211; Aaron Langan becomes Donegal Town\u2019s most recent Honorary Garda<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who joined with us to mark this special occasion in our parish.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The community of Killymard gathered in St Mary\u2019s Church, on Saturday, November 22 for the Induction Mass of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[40835,18,117,19,17,114233,114234],"class_list":{"0":"post-208307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donegal-town","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-killymard","14":"tag-monsignor-kevin-gillespie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115639670904117886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}