Donal McMahon is my name. I'm a parishioner of Saggart, living in Citywest. My involvement with St Mary's is my way of deepening a sense of connection with the place I've been living in now for thirty years. I looked after this website as assistant from its beginning in 2009 and subsequently as administrator from c.2012. The years of Covid when everything switched to online communication made life very difficult for us all, including this Web Sec who, as a self-taught “techie”, struggled at times to manage the site competently all on his own and in the face of ever-increasing expectations. Both to raise standards and to relieve me of my heavy workload, in early 2022 (see Newsletter 3rd April, p.3) a new website designed by https://getonline.ie/ was set up -- https://srbnparishes.ie/, the main focus of which is the practice of the faith and administration thereof in our Pastoral Area. The site here, now the old one, will continue to be maintained (by myself) as an accompanying / subsidiary site with the title, "Parish Blog", whose main focus will be parish history and exploring / deepening the faith. In summary, then, we how have a Parish Website (managed by the Parish Office) and a Parish Blog (managed by myself).
I taught English (obligatory subject), French and Latin (elective subjects) in the seminary of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, from 1974 to 2013. (In the Irish Times, 1 November 2013, I looked back at the wonder of how I came to be there at all.) I can be contacted at donalpmcmahon@gmail.com
