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God and the Recession
March 24, 2009
On 23 March, in Buswell’s Hotel, Professor Ray Kinsella of the UCD Smurfit School of Business, launched “The Recession and God” by Gerry O’Hanlon SJ. Ray started by invoking the...
Read moreOur Guy in Cork
March 24, 2009
Brother Guy Consolmagno, Curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory, will speak at the Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, on 29 and 30 March at 2.30 p.m., as part of the...
Read moreTwo backs and a flanker
March 24, 2009
TV-watchers in Clongowes and Dooradoyle watched Ireland’s rugby triumph in Cardiff last weekend with particular interest. Gordon D’Arcy and Robert Kearney learned their rugby in Clongowes; David Wallace learned his...
Read moreHow Lobone impacts on Richard
March 24, 2009
It is not so long since messages from Lobone would have been written on paper and carried for days, maybe weeks, by a runner with a cleft stick. Richard O’Dwyer...
Read moreSlí Eile International
March 24, 2009
When you think of Slí Eile, the Jesuit Centre for Young Adults, you’d be inclined to think that it’s as Irish as it gets. However, even if you can’t really...
Read moreShort Notices
March 24, 2009
AMDG Express has had no picture of Bill Johnston since his stroke last summer. Today an email from John Dardis and John Guiney in Tokyo reports that: ” We had...
Read moreThree sports in the Jes
March 24, 2009
The Jes Senior Hockey team beat Foyle/Londonderry in a thrilling final to win the Kate Russell All-Ireland Cup. The Jes came back from one-nil down at half time to lead...
Read moreForthcoming events
March 24, 2009
Donal Neary SJ and Pat Coyle will join forces in giving a retreat in Manresa to the joint parishioners of Gardiner Street and Iona Road. For details, contact Manresa. Slí...
Read moreJESUITICA: A vigorous response
March 24, 2009
A hundred and eighty years ago, the Unionists who framed the Catholic Emancipation Act put in a clause ordering the Jesuits to take no more novices, to undertake no public...
Read moreThe nature of Catholic education
March 19, 2009
Bruce Bradley SJ spoke in Galway to Coláiste Iognáid’s Ignatian Identity Group (IIG) last Tuesday, 10 March, on the nature of Catholic schools. He gave an astute historical background to the...
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