Mental Health Week 2017 Mental Health Week 2017 takes place from October 9-14. The World Health Organisation’s theme for World Mental Health Day on October 10 is Mental Health in the Workplace. This week is a great opportunity for individuals, workplaces and communities to bring awareness to and highlight mental health and wellbeing where you…
Winter is soon approaching and the time has come once again for many of us to get the flu vaccine. In fact, it may be all the more important this season as predictions suggest we may be facing one of the most significant flu outbreaks in decades. In Australia, rather strikingly there has been a…
I went to the gym this morning. Actually, I went twice, not because I am wildly enthusiastic about it but because I forgot my pass key first time and couldn’t get in. On the way home to pick it up the temptation not to bother, to curl up on the couch with a cup of…
October is here which means that Halloween is coming and the goose is getting fat! And it’s time to dig out your stack of black card to get making spooky decorations. Everyone has their own favourite Halloween symbol; whether it’s a pumpkin, a bat, a black cat, or a wicked witch with vibrant green skin.…
Although schools are all too often associated with academic and sporting achievement, a new school-based Irish initiative is beginning to place mental well-being and health on the radar. Buddy Bench Ireland is a child-led positive mental health programme in a schooling environment that promotes emotional resilience and mental wellbeing, through supporting the core competencies of…
Return to Montauk (PG ) Max (Stellan Skarsgard) is a writer from Berlin. He’s doing a promotional book tour in New York. Seventeen years ago he had a brief romance with Rebecca (Nina Hoss). Neither of them realised how much they cared about each other at the time. He meets her again now. You don’t have to be Einstein…
The pseudo-traditionalist website rorate-caeli.blogspot.com has become perhaps stranger than ever in the aftermath of the much-ballyhooed ‘filial correction’ of Pope Francis. It’s getting attention, as Roberto de Mattei says on the site, though it’s hard to justify his claim that it’s had an “extraordinary impact”, even if it’s been widely reported even in Russia and…
Almost 50 parishioners from Our Lady Queen of Peace in Bray travelled to Lourdes. For the last 17 years Ed and Bernadette Byrne have organised the pilgrimage.
It’s quite a while since I saw a documentary as moving and impressive as Ministry of Hope, RTÉ’s new series on the work of lay chaplains. The programme concentrated on Margaret Sleator in the Mater Hospital, Catherine Black in Shelton Abbey open prison and Philip McKinley, Church of Ireland chaplain at DCU. Margaret Slater’s work…
St. Patrick’s Church, Newport, Co. Mayo was built by John Sisk & Son 100 year ago. Family members of of John Sisk and Son Ltd at Newport church, from L/R Owen Sisk, Stephen Bowcott, CEO of John Sisk & Son, Thomas O’Connell, Hal Sisk and JP Sisk. Pic: Michael Mc Laughlin
Dr Kevin McCarroll
Bairbre Cahill
Erin Fox
Colm Fitzpatrick
Aubrey Malone
Greg Daly
Brendan O’Regan