AS PUBLICISED in our last edition, the end of Hibernian’s 150th year was celebrated in August by a couple of significant events. First, there was the unveiling of a plaque on the main pillar of the gates to St Patrick’s Church in the Cowgate, preceded by a Mass offered by the church for all Hibernians, past and present. There was as many as 200 people in the church to listen to Fr Ninian Doohan’s fantastic sermon. He spoke of the church needing support, not least because of t

HIBERNIAN Football Club’s sesquicentennial year drew to a close with a pre-season tour of Ireland and the unveiling of two plaques in co-founder Canon Edward Joseph Hannan’s birthplace village of Ballingarry, County Limerick (see features section).