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...

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“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...

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Fr 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...

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‘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:...

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Fr 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...

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Fast 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....

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Fast 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...

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Sound 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...

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Nativity 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...

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The 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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