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Singing Gospel behind bars

May 19, 2006

Anne Hallahan of the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir remembers the choir’s experience of singing two Masses in Wheatfield Prison. They went down well with the inmates, though they thought it...

3R Productions relaunched as RNN

May 19, 2006

3R Productions, founded by John Dardis in 1990 as a news syndication service of religious and social affairs, was relaunched by Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, on May 18, as Religious News...

Relics of St. Claude la Colombière come to Ireland

May 19, 2006

The Jesuit community at Paray-le-Monial is making the relics of Saint Claude la Colombière available to Irish dioceses. St Claude was the spiritual director of St Margaret Mary, recipient of...

Belvedere honours Jesuits with hand-written book

May 19, 2006

Belvedere has presented the Irish Province with an extraordinary book – a record of all Jesuits who have served in the school since its foundation in 1832. The book was...

Greetings from Sacred Space

April 20, 2006

E-Cards appropriate to the season can now be sent from the Sacred Space website. Gerry Bourke provides a round-up account of the site’s history and latest developments. A successful new...

Finding a new role for religion

April 20, 2006

Gerry O’Hanlon assesses the role which religion could assume in the Ireland of today, a country which has become, sadly, a place of ‘loads of money but no vision’. It...

Sacred Heart Church, Limerick – Where are we now?

April 20, 2006

Dermot Murray SJ gives the background to the closure of the Sacred Heart church in Limerick and he explains where things stand now, both with respect to the purchase of...

Bethlehem calling

April 20, 2006

Charlotte Carson, UK coordinator of Open Bethlehem, explains the difficulties Bethlehem faces this Easter – both the physical obstacles which cut it off from Jerusalem and the lack of the...

Two schools, two writers, one award

April 19, 2006

A Jesuit connection between Joyce and Beckett has been the premise for a literary award given out each year to a pupil from either Clongowes or Portora, explains Bruce Bradley....

Irish girl comes second in JRS competition

April 19, 2006

The life of aged-out minors seeking asylum in Ireland by Hélène Hofman At 2pm on April the 18th 2006 at a prize-giving ceremony at the European Parliament, the Jesuit Refugee...

Bishop speaks of hell on earth in his diocese

July 4, 2025 - Rape, torture, displacement and one million people slaughtered over two years in an attack on a bishop's diocese in Ethiopia that no outsiders heard of.

Bloomsday breakfast in Belvedere

July 2, 2025 - The sun shone brightly as Bruce Bradley SJ gave a talk on James Joyce and his schooldays in Belvedere, at the Bloomsday breakfast in the college.

Veronica’s Bookstore

July 1, 2025 - Author Iva Beranek speaks with Pat Coyle about her two children's books which capture the importance of prayer, family, faith and love.

Ecumenical conversations at Oxford university

June 18, 2025 - Jesuit theologian Dr Gerry O'Hanlon speaks about his part in an ecumenical seminar at Oxford University on 'Anglican and Catholic Synodality'.