Rector's Musings

Occasional musings of the Rector. 

Easter Vestry Election results

Many thanks to all who came to our two Easter Vestry meetings, for Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon and for Kilmallock. And also many thanks to those who were elected to the various positions. They are as follows: 

Select Vestry, Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon: 

Adare: 

Rector’s Churchwarden: Valerie Shine-O’Kelly
People’s Churchwarden: Meriel Clarke
Vestry Members: 

  • Victor Alfred

  • Janet Bray

  • Caroline deBurca Murphy

  • Olivia Gardiner

  • Alan Mitchell

  • John Scanlan

Croom: 

Rector’s Churchwarden: Nuala Gardiner
People’s Churchwarden: Helen Davis
Vestry Members: 

  • Robert Davis

  • Robert Walker

Kilpeacon: 

Rector’s Churchwarden: Bobby Bingham
People’s Churchwarden: Dorothy Brislane
Vestry Members: 

  • Sylvia Cooke

  • Silla Harrington

  • Burton Smith

  • [and an opening for one more]

Rector’s Glebewarden: James Clarke
People’s Glebewarden: Kieron Brislane

Kilmallock Select Vestry

Rector’s Churchwarden: Henry Hales
People’s Churchwarden: Jessie Griffin
Vestry Members: 

  • Margaret Cahill

  • Helen Greene

  • Emily Hales

  • David Jones

  • Ann Kenny-Ryan

  • Tabitha Lillingston

  • Stanley Wallace

Rector’s Glebewarden: Luke Lillingston
People’s Glebewarden: Chris Adams

Parish Nominators

  • Kieron Brislane (Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon)

  • Meriel Clarke (Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon)

  • Sylvia Cooke (Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon)

  • Luke Lillingston (Kilmallock)

Diocesan Synod Representatives

  • Janet Bray (Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon)

  • Kieron Brislane (Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon)

  • James Clarke (Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon)

  • Jessie Griffin (Kilmallock)

We also approved the census for each parish, adopted the accounts, and agreed the diocesan ‘Ability to Pay’ form. 

At the Adare/Croom/Kilpeacon meeting, we recommissioned Dorothy Brislane and Kevin deBurca Murphy as Parish Readers. John Scanlan was also recommissioned in absentia, as he could not be present. We will recommission John more formally at a Sunday service. We thank our Parish Readers, as well as Stanley Wallace, who is a Diocesan Reader, for their faithful service to our parishes.