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St Declan’s marks 50th birthday

September 30, 2008

St Declan’s School celebrated its 50th birthday on 27 September, with past and present students and their families filling Haddington Road church for a Mass celebrated by Jesuit Provincial John...

Coláiste Iognáid welcomes government funding

September 30, 2008

Staff, students, parents, Jesuits and the Board of Management of Coláiste Iognáid have given a warm welcome to the news that the Department of Education will provide the funding for...

Slí Eile present cheque to Irish charity

September 30, 2008

Slí Eile director Padraig Swan presented a cheque for €45,000 to John Clarke of Friends in Ireland on 27 September in the Belvedere Hotel. The money was raised by students...

Pioneers keep ploughing away with young people

September 30, 2008

The Pioneer Association made its presence felt at the National Ploughing Championships, which was held in Cuffesgrange, Kilkenny, and drew a record crowd of 210,000 people over three days. One...

Clongowes for Kairos

September 30, 2008

Clongowes Wood College was the venue for not one but two Kairos retreats running in parallel last weekend, 25-28 September. Under the direction of Mary Maume, Peter Sexton SJ and...

Street evangelisation

September 30, 2008

Fr Charlie Davy SJ, having signed up for a one-day course on evangelisation. was disconcerted to find that it included a bit of practice. He went on to the Galway...

Ignatian Formation in Jesuit Colleges

September 30, 2008

Brian Flannery, the Education Delegate for the Irish Jesuit province, hosted a meeting 29-30 September for those involved in Ignatian Formation in the Jesuit Colleges. Attendees were: Helen Barden (Belvedere),...

Paddy Lavery SJ: a special jubilee

September 30, 2008

Among the many personal jubilees celebrated in the Irish Jesuit province this year, Paddy Lavery’s (60 years a Jesuit) had a special flavour. His Clongowes brethren gathered round him in...

Short Notices

September 30, 2008

Fr Brendan Comerford SJ (photo right) will give his popular 4-week Scripture course, an introduction to the Gospels (taking one Gospel each night), from 7.30 to 9.30 on Tuesday evenings...

Irish Jesuit honoured in US

November 30, 2023 - Dr Michael O'Sullivan, SJ is the first Jesuit to be elected as President of the International Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality