Education
Warm welcomes up North
September 15, 2009
Sunday 13th. After the mass in Gardiner Street and the reception in Belvedere, Father General took the road north to Belfast. A keen observer of the reality around him, by...
Read more“Creativity, daring and great humility”
September 13, 2009
‘Jesuit mission today’ was the issue addressed by Fr Adolfo Nicolas SJ, when he spoke to his fellow Jesuits, their co-workers and colleagues, in Gonzaga College on Sat Sept 12th. In his...
Read moreFr General in Gonzaga
September 12, 2009
Father Adolfo Nicolas SJ visited Gonzaga College Dublin on the morning of Saturday 12 September 2009 and was greeted by the headmaster Mr Kevin Whirdy, the Superior of the Gonzaga Jesuit Community Myles...
Read more‘Education is trouble!’: Fr Nicolás in Crescent
September 11, 2009
Quoting Zorba, in the film ‘Zorba the Greek’, Fr Adolfo Nicolás told the staff, pupils, Jesuits and colleagues of Crescent College Comprehensive Limerick that “Life is trouble!” He then added:...
Read moreFr General in Crescent College Limerick
September 11, 2009
Fr Adolfo Nicolas SJ, Fr General of the Jesuits, arrived this morning in Crescent College Comprehensive Limerick, to a guard of hounour from school pupils lined along the driveway. He was...
Read moreFast girls on water
August 11, 2009
Zoe Mannion and Aifric Keogh of Coláiste Iognáid won the silver medal in the women’s junior pair on Sunday, August 2, finishing second to Britain, who won the event overall....
Read moreFast girls on land
August 11, 2009
Crescent Comprehensive College’s junior girls 4 x 100 meters relay team were in devastating form at the All Ireland schools Athletics meet in Tullamore. They lifted the gold medal for...
Read moreSound sense
June 30, 2009
For the last two years a Czech-born sound artist has been working with the children of St Declan’s school, taking each class for half an hour a week. “I’m not...
Read moreNativity School visits Galway
June 30, 2009
Czech Nativity School in Galway: Director Josef Horehled SJ along with students and staff from the Nativity school in Prague were on holidays in Galway from 22-27 June 2009. Brendan...
Read moreThe Status for the year ahead
June 23, 2009
The ‘Status’ for the Irish Jesuit Province was posted this week. It is the list of assignments for Jesuits for the coming year. Did it connote a centrifugal or a...
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