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‘Blind obedience’ from Belvedere students
January 26, 2010
Two Belvedere College students won second prize in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition awards at the RDS, Dublin, 13-16 Jan. Owen Killian and Andrew Griffin investigated the use of intense ultraviolet radiation...
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‘Crescent’ bridge from poverty to prosperity
January 26, 2010
Students of Crescent College Comprehensive were told by President Mary McAleese that they carried with them an ‘imprint of Jesuit education, a character which doesn’t change’. Speaking at a closing...
Read moreBelvedere boys face freeze in fundraiser vigil
December 22, 2009
The annual sleep-out of Belvedere boys has begun today, Tuesday, 22 December, in O’Connell St. Dublin 1. Fifth and sixth year students from the college face a freezing few nights...
Read moreCherishing the children
December 22, 2009
Parents of teenage children in Coláiste Iognáid have just completed the Cherishing Your Child parent training course run by Helen Smith, founder of Turas Nua. The programme has been delivered...
Read moreChristmas is for children!
December 22, 2009
The Manresa Centre for Spirituality, in Dollymount, Dublin 3, wrapped up a very successful programme of events for 2009 last Saturday, 19 December, when it hosted a Christmas Preparation for...
Read moreDavid Coleman talks ‘teenies’ in Belvedere
December 22, 2009
David Coleman, well-known clincial psychologist, author and broadcaster, is guest speaker at the fundraising lecture organised by Belvedere College Parents Association on Tuesday, 26 Jan, 2010 at 7.30pm. “Getting your...
Read moreCrescent superstars
December 8, 2009
As part of their sesquicentenary celebrations, Crescent College in Limerick staged an elaborate production of Jesus Christ Superstar for four nights, from 3-6 December. Directed by Richie Ryan, whose son...
Read moreChaplains’ work crucial for Church
November 24, 2009
“Your work as chaplains is one of the most important missions in the Church”. That was the message from Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, to thirty members of the...
Read moreJesuits in the DIB
November 24, 2009
There was Jesuit interest and involvement in the monumental Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), which was launched on 18 November in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, before some 500 people. ...
Read more‘Please Sir, can I have some more?’
November 24, 2009
“It truly was,” as Dr Anne Looney described it,”a gathering of the aspiring, the perspiring and the inspiring!” Teachers, pupils and educators arrived in significant numbers for the Education Symposium...
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