Education

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...

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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...

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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),...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Sporting Jesuit boys and girls

September 9, 2008

Former pupils from Jesuit schools were pioneers of carbon-neutral rugby this summer. They were on the panel of Leinster who, in association with Ecocem & Emission Zero, agreed to offset...

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“They give with nothing to gain”

September 5, 2008

Northside People West, a suburban Dublin newspaper, featured JUST on 3rd September, around the experience of Jean and Karl, would-be third-level students in Ballymun: Jean had been 29 years out...

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Brendan is gone, long live Brendan

September 2, 2008

You may wonder what has happened to Brendan McManus, the first and late editor of AMDG Express. After an intense immersion course in the Conemara Gaeltacht, putting a Galway blas...

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Bart rides the tide

September 1, 2008

Fifty years ago Fr Bart Kiely SJ, now professor of psychology at the Gregorian University, won the Lee swim as a 16-year-old. It is a different race now, 1700 metres...

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