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Football fever in Limerick

June 29, 2010

This summer’s football fever erupted in Limerick on 19 June, as Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland marked the occasion of World Refugee Day (20 June) with an 11-a-side football tournament for...

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Volunteers commissioned in Gardiner St.

June 29, 2010

Eighteen Slí Eile volunteers were commissioned at the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Mass on 20 June for their upcoming work in Jamaica and Zambia. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin celebrated the Mass...

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A time of grace

June 29, 2010

The 8-day retreat that has just ended in Manresa was distinctive in two ways. The group of retreatants comprised Jesuits from the Irish, British, Dutch and Flemish provinces: the diversity...

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Forthcoming events

June 29, 2010

30 June: Kevin Laheen SJ’s book entitled The Jesuits in Tullabeg: The final curtain will be launched in Milltown Institute. For details, contact 01 6768409 2-24 July: Sli Eile –...

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Short notices

June 29, 2010

Fifty-two students walked over 250 km from Dublin to Galway for the annual Belvedere College Block Pull charity walk. The Block Pull involves students pulling two large wooden blocks about...

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Bloody Sunday – moving on

June 29, 2010

The recent publication of the report of the Saville Inquiry into the fateful events on Bloody Sunday in Derry 1972 was an historic and moving occasion for many. According to...

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St Declan’s principal retires

June 29, 2010

Michael Nolan, Principal of St Declan’s National School since 1994, is retiring, and the end-of-term Mass was also a farewell to him. School Principals, trying to hold a balance between...

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Remembering a remarkable man

June 29, 2010

Irish Jesuit Ciaran Kane gave a ringing endorsement to Todd Morrissey SJ’s book  Thomas F. Ryan SJ: From Cork to China and Windsor Castle, launched in Belvedere College, Great Denmark...

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A dazzling diaconate

June 29, 2010

The voice of John Looby, Editor of the Sacred Heart Messenger, resonated round the vasty spaces of Christ Church Cathedral as he declaimed the Second Reading. His words to Ken Rue...

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MP Gallagher on BBC

June 29, 2010

Michael Paul Gallagher SJ returned from Italy to Ireland recently to spend some of the summer, and already the author of over ten books on spirituality, culture and fundamental theology...

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