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LAHINCH’S Ruairí McKiernan will host a special event this weekend to celebrate the feast of St Brigid. The event, on Saturday afternoon, will hear from a Nobel Peace Laureate, as well as a man the Dalai Lama described as a ‘hero’ at a Virtual Féile Bríde event. Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Richard Moore will join the conversation which will explore issues relating to peace and justice in the modern world. The virtual Féile Bríde event, hosted online last year for the first time, was a huge success with hundreds joining from around the world and while it is expected to return to Kildare next year, this year the virtual option remains very popular. To date, registrations for Saturday’s event have come from people in Brazil, Guatemala, South Africa, North America, and Vietnam. McKiernan is a Lahinch-based campaigner and the author of Hitching for Hope. He will moderate the event involving special guest Belfast’s Mairead Corrigan Maguire. Ms Corrigan Maguire won …
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