Personal Profile Colm Fitzpatrick speaks with MIC’s new president From once a young, budding psychology student to now the new president of Ireland’s largest Catholic university, one man is planning to keep care, social justice, and academic excellence on the map. This year Professor Eugene Wall was appointed as president to Limerick’s Mary Immaculate…
A welcome haunting Stories of ghosts and the supernatural will be among those told at the Dublin Ghost Story Festival from June 29 to July 1. The event is to be put on by publishing house Swan River Press and will feature several writers that explore Dublin’s connection to literary ghost stories. The event will also…
At Sunday Masses throughout the 35 parishes of the north-western diocese of Kilmore, couples celebrating significant wedding anniversaries had an opportunity to renew their marriage vows and special blessings were offered to families. The diocese of Kilmore celebrated all that is best in family life in preparation for the forthcoming World Meeting of Families in…
Green Fingers The dog days of July usually bring the heat of the summer with them. If your lawn dries up and turns brown, raise the height of your mower and keep cutting it, just not as often. This keeps it tidy and stops it going to seed. Resist the temptation to water it.…
Matthew Carlson A limited-edition box set commemorating the life and work of football club Celtic FC’s founder Marist Brother Walfrid has been produced. The box set, which was created by Scottish print finisher ACA, is limited to 1,888 which symbolises the year that Celtic FC played its first match. It includes an A3-sized depiction of…
Listen to those in need says Pope on World Day of Poor How is it that God in heaven can hear the cries of the poor, but so many people watching or standing nearby either cannot or just do not care, Pope Francis asked on the World Day of the Poor. The recently established commemoration is meant to give Christians a chance to follow Christ’s example…
World of Books Some days I stand in front of the magazine racks in Easons and wonder if the great era of the general magazine is now over. Are they, so to speak, now dead in the water, killed off by television and the internet? Certainly they are not what they once were. The…
College chaplaincy is changing to meet a changing world, writes Greg Daly Trinity College this month hosted a remarkable gathering of third-level chaplains from across Europe and further afield, and in between tours to see the Book of Kells, two Irish chaplains took time to explain what was going on. “It’s the Conference of…
Pat O’Kelly Although this year commemorates the centenary of the death in Paris on March 25, 1918 of Claude-Achille Debussy, celebratory events here have, so far, been relatively low-key. The RTÉ NSO did bring us the composer’s Poème dansé – Jeux in February as part of its season and the recent Dublin International Piano…
For a child, the most magical part of their home is not the house itself, but the garden. Gardens twitter and hum with life. They are full of mysterious bugs, birds, frogs and sundry slimy things. Bushes and undergrowth become secret dens, where adults may not tread. The lawn is for football and games of…
Colm Fitzpatrick
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