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Stewards Dermot Dunning from Athlone and Chris Quinn from Dublin praying yesterday at Mass for the Feast of the Assumption. The Mass was part of the Knock shrine national novena which runs until August 22nd.

Stewards Dermot Dunning from Athlone and Chris Quinn from Dublin praying yesterday at Mass for the Feast of the Assumption. The Mass was part of the Knock shrine national novena which runs until August 22nd.


Photograph: Alan Betson
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