former MEPs Tom O’Donnell and John Cushnahan, Mayor of Limerick Cllr Maria Byrne, city and county councillors, relatives and friends. “It was a very enjoyable night of jubilant celebrations.

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.