Music Matters

After a well-deserved rest following our performance of Stainer’s Crucifixion during Holy Week, the choir has begun preparing for one final special event—a service of Choral Matins on Trinity Sunday, 12 June, to mark the end of the choir term. Surviving copies of music from Sandford of more than a…

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Easter Cards

A number of parishioners were delighted to receive Easter cards made and written by the children in our grouped parishes. The residents of The Mageough were also delighted to receive Easter cards from students in 5th and 6th classes in Sandford Parish NS.

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Garden Gang

It is all action in St Philip’s allotments, and with the Garden Gang in particular, as we prepare for the Rathmines Open Garden Trail on Sunday 12 June (2pm – 6pm). We were invited to be participants in June 2019 and it was a spectacular success then as lots of…

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Sandford Parish Cookbook

The Sandford Parish Cookbook was launched in October 2021. This 128-page bookcontains 101 recipes donated by the parishioners of Sandford & St Philip’sMilltown and the children of Sandford Parish National School, ranging fromCheesy Bang Bangs and Brown Bettys to Noisette of Lamb and Tasmanian Lemon Pie. The cookbook priced at…

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Sandmillers

Sandmillers last met on 11 March 2020 in Sandford Church to hear a talk on Josephine Heffernan’s lost (and found) bracelet. It seems a lifetime away now with the turmoil we have experienced in our lives since then. As we emerge from the pandemic, now seems like an appropriate time…

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