The Digicel Haiti Foundation has opened a new school in Northwest Haiti dedicated to the late communications guru PJ Mara. Founded in July 2011 this school – which was operating in a makeshift shelter – is now lodged in new earthquake-resistant and hurricane-resistant premises. The school has eleven classrooms that can accommodate more than 400…
First year students from Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí (Bantry Community College) were all smiles after making St Brigid’s crosses to mark her feast day last week.
The people of South Sudan need Ireland’s help, writes Colm Fitzpatrick With poverty, hunger and fear still rampant in war-torn South Sudan, a lay missionary is calling on all Irish people for support. Noeleen Loughran, who originally hails from the small village of Emyvale, Co. Monaghan, now helps suffering children in Africa, having sold…
Céilí, comedy and lots of craic For anyone in the family with a penchant for music or all things Irish, The Gathering Traditional Festival, which is one of the biggest traditional music festivals in the country, is an event worth your attention. The festival has been running for 19 years and takes place in Killarney…
Bishop Denis Nulty will be flipping pancakes at a party at the primary school in Prosperous on Shrove Tuesday, February 13. “There are two reasons for the party – we’re preparing to start our parish conversations on Faith and Family over the Sundays in Lent, following the course provided by the WMOF and we thought…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Lourdes is a constant cinematic subject, writes Aubrey Malone Not too many people are aware that films about Bernadette Soubirous go back to the beginning of the film industry. In 1909 there was a short French feature made about the miller’s daughter, Bernadette Soubirous at les Apparitions de Lourdes,…
We are all guilty of poor listening at times, writes Barbara Duff Do you ever feel that your partner does not really listen to you? Well, don’t worry – you are not alone. And chances are that at times your partner feels the very same. For most of us, the art of true listening…
Pat O’Kelly Next week the RTÉ NSO celebrates its 70th birthday with its concert at the NCH on Friday, February 16. Directed by former principal conductor Gerhard Markson, music by Wagner, Prokofiev and Deirdre Gribben brings soprano Orla Boylan and pianist Finghin Collins as soloists. But there had been a Radio Éireann Orchestra prior…
It was a mixed week when it comes to issues surrounding the welfare of children. There were so many welcome media debates alerting parents to the dangers of online grooming and abuse of children. I heard calls for the banning of smartphones in primary schools and I heard of the Government rightly supporting initiatives to…
In a rare new letter penned by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the retired pontiff said he is in the last phase of his life, and while his physical strength might be waning, he is surrounded by a “love and goodness” that he never imagined. “I can only say that at the end of a slow…
Colm Fitzpatrick
Susan Gately
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