Retirement for many people can mean days of idling and enjoying a slower pace of life. Fr Michael Trainor, who stepped down from his role as the Lockley’s parish priest this month, is not one of them he told Richard Evans.
When you’re soaring at 3000 feet with only a thin sheet of fibreglass between you and the beautiful green, rolling hills below, your own mortality understandably begins to invade your thoughts. But as LINDY McNAMARA discovered when she took to the air with glider pilot Father Michael Trainor, putting your life in someone else’s hands is a matter of faith and trust.