Nobody expected The Railway Children to capture the public imagination the way it did in 1970. Films about displaced children in wartime usually go down well (especially if they’re tearjerkers, as this was) but its appeal went off-the-scale. People were still talking about it half a century later. It makes you wonder why they took…
Major climate award for Shankill parish An initiative of Shankill Parish in Co. Dublin has won a prestigious European Churches environmental award for its work tackling climate change. At the recent virtual meeting of the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN), Shankill Action for a Green Earth (SAGE) was the joint winner of the Roman Juriga…
“Why did you not go in to join the celebrations?” It is a fair question! There was jealousy at work. Yes, he had gone away and left us all in the lurch. Yes, he had eaten into my father’s property but there was more to it than that. I resented him, not just because he had…
Dear England: Finding Hope, Taking Heart and Changing the World by Stephen Cottrell (Hodder Faith, €11.50/£9.99) This little book, by the Anglican Archbishop of York, might provide an object lesson to some Irish Catholic bishops. It is basically a letter answering a query to him by a complete stranger: ‘What made you become a priest?’ He…
Children’s Corner Water can certainly move in mysterious ways. It is paramount to life on earth and humans would certainly not be able to survive without it considering about 60% of our bodies are made up of the liquid! There are hundreds of experiments examining the miracle that is water and how it interacts with…
Aubrey Malone
Ruadhán Jones
Peter Costello
Chai Brady