Daft Property - Irish Property News

Until we see some real green shoots, praying to a tree stump may be the next best thing... It's a miracle. It's a sign from above in bad times. It's a tree stump. It all depends on where you stand, how you view the tree stump in the churchyard in Rathkeale, County Limerick. People from all over the country have been coming to pray at the stump, in which they perceive an image of the Virgin Mary. Workmen removing old trees from the grounds of the Holy Mary Parish Church, having sawn away the upper part of the tree, noticed that the leftover stump had an unusual shape. They believed it looked like the Virgin Mary. The parish priest could have seen this as a great opportunity to revive the faith, but instead, he talked commonsense. "There's nothing there," he said crisply "It's just a tree. You can't worship a tree." God help him, he's fighting an uphill battle, as local teenagers line up in the Church in the evenings to say the Rosary in a ...