Social Justice

Colwell challenges Galway

April 5, 2011

Mary Colwell, a Bristol-born producer of TV shows, spent a day in Galway last month talking to students and staff of Coláiste Iognáid and the general public on an ecological...

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Rwanda: light and dark

April 5, 2011

Gerry Clarke SJ faces problems of  darkness at Gihembe refugee camp, where there is no electricity supply and therefore no possibility of doing homework after six in the evening. But a...

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JRS news is good news…

April 5, 2011

The news was good when Jan O’Sullivan TD, Minister of State, Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade launched the Progress Report on  the Limerick City and Council Integration Plan, in...

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Entrepreneurs have ‘Trust’

March 8, 2011

Dermot McKenna SJ and John K. Guiney SJ were among over 100 guests at the annual Bolton Trust Awards ceremony (in conjunction with Hothouse and PcW)  in the Price Waterhouse...

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Vote for justice

February 22, 2011

With the General Election in full swing, the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has called on whoever gets into government to give priority to those who are suffering most in these...

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African exchange

February 8, 2011

Claire Broderick and the students of Elements Xavier, Belvedere College, along with John Guiney SJ and Deirdre Connolly from the Jesuit Mission Office, are working on a link project with...

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Why care?

January 25, 2011

Labour’s Eamon Gilmore was due to be the launcher, but at the last minute the drama in Leinster House pulled him away. So it was the Crescent Transition Year students...

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JRS spreads Christmas cheer

January 25, 2011

JRS Ireland Dublin office ran a successful Toy Appeal, receiving toys for more than one hundred asylum-seeking and refugee children. The organiser of the appeal was Audrey Hogan of MAGIS...

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A new year and a new nation is born

January 25, 2011

After a break in Ireland, Richard O’Dwyer SJ was back in Lobone, Southern Sudan, in good time for the crucial referendum about the country’s future. The development goes far beyond...

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New head at JCFJ

January 11, 2011

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (JCFJ) has a new director: John K. Guiney SJ, who will also continue to be director of the Jesuit Mission Office. For the...

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