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Volunteers celebrate successful South Africa challenge

September 23, 2008

75 volunteers joined the Slí Eile South Africa Challenge this summer. They were mainly 6th year graduates of the Jesuit schools, but they were joined by volunteers from Terenure College...

Guest lecture at Milltown inauguration

September 23, 2008

Professor Paul Locatelli SJ, President and Professor of Accounting, Santa Clara University, California. USA, will be the guest speaker at the Inauguration of the Academic Year at Milltown Institute on...

Paddy Doyle and the ISE

September 23, 2008

Many others besides Jesuits have felt the loss of Paddy Doyle SJ, former Irish Provincial, who passed away recently. Below is a piece from Robin Boyd, the second director of...

Coláiste Iognáid students retreat to sea

September 23, 2008

With the help of a number of Colaiste Iognaid teachers, Brendan McManus SJ began the school retreat programme last week. Each class in the school has a day away at...

Artwork for Tertianship building

September 23, 2008

A bronze and glass sculpture which was commissioned for the Tertianship building in Manresa was unveiled and blessed on Monday, 22 September, by John Dardis SJ. The artist is Corkman...

Personnel changes at Slí Eile

September 23, 2008

Gerry Clarke SJ is giving up his Slí Eile duties in order to work with the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He leaves for Africa on...

“Is religion dangerous?” – public lecture

September 23, 2008

The question to which the third public lecture of Studies Quarterly Review and The Iona Institute will be addressed is ‘Is religion dangerous?’ This is the title of one of...

Seventy years a Jesuit

September 23, 2008

Fr Kevin Laheen SJ celebrated seventy years as a Jesuit on Sept 16, with his family, friends and Jesuit community in Leeson St, Dublin 2. Born on Feb 18, 1919...