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April 5, 2011
The news was good when Jan O’Sullivan TD, Minister of State, Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade launched the Progress Report on the Limerick City and Council Integration Plan, in...
Read moreEric Cantillon R.I.P.
April 5, 2011
Eric Cantillon SJ was 86 when he died on 2 April. He was a quiet Corkonian with the air of a countryman, loved by his parishioners in Staplestown where he...
Read moreJESUITICA: Truth without fear or favour
March 22, 2011
A hundred years ago, Paddy Walsh was born in Rosmuc to an Irish-speaking family that frequently welcomed Padraic Pearse as a visitor. Paddy was the first Irish Jesuit missionary to...
Read moreForthcoming Events
March 22, 2011
Tuesday 22 March: J.U.S.T. Ballymun are hosting a talk entitled ‘Philosophy for Beginners’. It will be held in the Ballymun Job Centre at 7.30pm to 9pm. For further information visit...
Read more“Empathy is cheap”
March 22, 2011
“Caring is costly, empathy is cheap”, claims Fergus O’Donoghue SJ, in his editorial in the just-launched spring edition of the Jesuit Journal Studies, ‘Making Ireland a Caring Society’. Theodore Dalrymple,...
Read moreLent revisited
March 22, 2011
Presbyterian minister Katherine Myers spoke recently to Pat Coyle in an interview/podcast, part of the lenten series organised jointly by the Jesuit Communciation Centre and Brian O’Leary SJ, Province Delegate...
Read morePseudo-ranking schools
March 22, 2011
The Sunday Times of 13 March ranked 400 Irish second-level schools on the proportion of their pupils who went on to university. Of course that is a poor measure of...
Read moreTalking to ‘terrorists’
March 22, 2011
Ray Helmick SJ from Boston gave the welcoming address at the Spirituality and Trauma international conference in the Europa Hotel, Belfast, 9-14 March. Elias Osmondo SJ from Kenya, Michael Bingham...
Read moreJapanese inspiring
March 22, 2011
“It’s uplifting and beautiful to witness, as an Irishman, how the Japanese people are responding to the earthquake and tsunami disaster.” So says Donal Doyle SJ, superior of the Irish...
Read moreTrophies galore
March 22, 2011
For the first time ever, the Clongowes SCT won the Leinster Schools cup twice in a row, and did so with the second highest score ever recorded in a final (46-15 against Roscrea)....
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