Education
Sporting Jesuit boys and girls
September 9, 2008
Former pupils from Jesuit schools were pioneers of carbon-neutral rugby this summer. They were on the panel of Leinster who, in association with Ecocem & Emission Zero, agreed to offset...
Read more“They give with nothing to gain”
September 5, 2008
Northside People West, a suburban Dublin newspaper, featured JUST on 3rd September, around the experience of Jean and Karl, would-be third-level students in Ballymun: Jean had been 29 years out...
Read moreBrendan is gone, long live Brendan
September 2, 2008
You may wonder what has happened to Brendan McManus, the first and late editor of AMDG Express. After an intense immersion course in the Conemara Gaeltacht, putting a Galway blas...
Read moreBart rides the tide
September 1, 2008
Fifty years ago Fr Bart Kiely SJ, now professor of psychology at the Gregorian University, won the Lee swim as a 16-year-old. It is a different race now, 1700 metres...
Read moreFigures in a landscape
September 1, 2008
Paddy Heelan SJ, John Moore SJ, Jimmy Hurley SJ, and Hugh O’Neill SJ were among a group of Jesuits who celebrated together the golden jubilee of their ordination. Hugh O’Neill...
Read moreJesuit School reborn
August 13, 2008
Trócaire, 15.7.08: The Loyola School in Wau, South Sudan, was forced to close over twenty years ago during the on-going civil war. Many of its students fled Sudan and the...
Read moreAnniversary celebrations for St Declan’s
July 8, 2008
2008 marks the 50th anniversary of St Declan’s School, a remarkable venture begun by the Jesuits in 1958. With premises on Northumberland Road, Dublin 4, it helps children who, for personal or...
Read moreEvening theology course in Milltown
July 7, 2008
The Milltown Institute is still accepting applications for its Certificate in Theology, a two-year evening programme which is accredited by NUI. The programme begins in September, with lectures taking place...
Read moreClongowes star named ‘Young gun’
July 1, 2008
Gareth Ó Súilleabháin, who plays under-15s rugby at Clongowes, has been selected as a Young Gun (most promising young Irish rugby player) by Emerald Rugby Magazine, Ireland’s leading rugby magazine....
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