I have put the Kilkeel marriages and births on my website, also the Dromore, Newcastle and Banbridge sections are all updated. Raymond http://www.raymondscountydownwebsite.com

For those interested in free Irish languages classes in the New York / Long Island area, please see notice below: GERRY TOBIN IRISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL CELEBRATES PUBLICATION OF "THE MAD POET" The Gerry Tobin Irish Language School invites all interested in Irish poetry and in learning Irish to its summer party on Thursday, June 24 at 7:45PM at the Ancient Order of Hibernians Hall, 27 Locust Avenue, Babylon, Long Island. The party kicks off a new semester of free weekly Irish language classes at all levels and will include readings from An File Ar Buile (The Mad Poet) - Poems From America, a book signing by its author Séamas Ó Neachtain, and traditional Irish music by Na Buachaillí Dána - all free. An File Ar Buile (The Mad Poet) is the first book of Irish Gaelic poetry written in the U.S. in living memory. Its author is Long Island-born and bred and a teacher at the Gerry Tobin School, which has just finished celebrating fifteen years of teaching the Irish language and spreading its use as a living language. Open to all, the School provides one of the most extensive programs of Irish language instruction in North America, advanced workshops and research in Ir! ish Gaelic literature and culture, and a Virtual Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) throughout the world on the internet. For more information, call Jerry Kelly at 516-679-0465.