FRIENDS from Dunmore and Querrien were able to taste everything from sourdough bread to miniature pies at the Entre Deux Fournées organic bakery. Pictured here are (seated) Patricia Hogan, Marie-Odile Moysan, Morgane Gourlay, Barbara Munro, Seán Munro and Patrick Gourlay. Behind them are Margaret Rabbitte, Christian Perez, Marilene Gourlay, Lilian Guerer, Tommie Howley, Marie-Agnes Besnard, Bernard and Michele Brunou, Solange Halper, John Morris, Madeline Mitchell, Sylvie Perez, Thierry Hermeline (baker), Jean-Pierre Nelyas, Cécile Hermeline (confectioner), Patricia McLoughlin, Maryse Toulgoat, Louise Hogan, Julie Jessop, Emer Fallon, Maureen Mitchell, Marcel Moysan, Linda Morris and Erwan Fah.

Dunmore’s Breton twin flies the tricolour

A trip to catch up with old friends and make new ones

Organic bread and salt marshes

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IT’S 40 years — or is it 41? — since Dunmore and Querrien plighted their troth in a twinning that has become one of the most successful in the history of the links between us and our Celtic cousins.

The first official twinning ceremony was in Querrien in 1983, and the follow-up was in Dunmore in ’84. So, the exact number of the anniversary depends on your location.

But in the words of the Eurovision winner, What’s another year?

There was no quibbling at the ceremony in the multi-purpose venue in Querrien on Sunday August 18 when a plaque depicting the parade through Dunmore on Twinning Day 1984 was unveiled.

It’s the latest in a series of commemorative plaques which leave the casual visitor in no doubt about the links between the two towns.

Those links were reinforced by the Irish tricolours which hung in many establishments around Querrien, not to mention the elaborate composite flag of the Celtic nations on the wall of the local pub-tabac-newsagent, L’Hermine.

Read the story in full in this week’s edition of The Tuam Herald, on sale in shops or buy the digital edition here

David Burke
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