Margaret keeps busy doing knitting and crochet at 100

AFTER celebrating her 100th birthday on Sunday, and into the early hours of Monday, Margaret Kelly from Clongowna, Ballymacward had a lie-in the following morning but she was as busy as ever in the afternoon doing crochet and knitting garments for the foreign missions.
“I make christening shawls, little bedspreads, caps and scarves and little matinee coats for children and things like that,” said Margaret as she put the finishing touches to the complex looking crochet work on a pink bedspread which will be one of the many items that she will be giving to her niece, Sr Rita Kilroy, for the foreign missions.
She enjoyed every moment of her 100th birthday celebrations in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe which started with Mass celebrated by Fr Raymond Sweeney PP Ballymacward. Family friends Bishop John Kirby and Fr John O’Gorman were also among the attendance. Other special guests at the event included her elder sister Mrs Mary Kilroy (101) from Caltra and their younger sister Mrs Chrissie Owens (88) from Menlough.