Ruadhán Jones
Ms Máirín Hughes visits the Irish Air Corps base in Baldonnel on the 90th anniversary of the Eucharistic congress, which she attended. Photo: Irish Air Corps Twitter. While visiting the Irish Air Corps in Baldonnel, 108-year-old Máirín Hughes recalled her pride at her first cousin’s role in escorting the papal ship for the 1932 Eucharistic congress. Ms Hughes was 18 when her cousin Fionnbar O’Cathalain was one of the Air Corps pilots who flew in the flypast on the occasion of the…
