COMMUNITY NOTES: BALLYHAUNIS - WESTERN PEOPLE (APRIL 21 EDITION)
A Ballyhaunis great-grandmother featured in the chat between American actor and comedian John Mulaney and host Tommy Tiernan on the latter’s RTÉ show recently.
Mulaney, who has appeared in and hosted the popular NBC Saturday Night Live show explained how his maternal great-grandparents were Republican congressman George J. Bates, a Republican mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, and his wife Nora Jennings, who moved to the United States from Ballyhaunis.
Nora Jennings appears to have come from Logboy: her story is told in an early edition of the Annagh magazine in an article written by Jim Lundon based on his conversation with a Mike Jennings in Logboy who was born in 1904.
Jim’s article describes how Nora Jennings and her husband, Congressman Bates, visited Logboy in 1947.
