Last month, Catholic Education Partnership (CEP), working with the Irish Bishops’ Conference, launched Living Love Senior, an SPHE/RSE programme for the new Senior Cycle Leaving Certificate curriculum. And, it is a triumph. Those involved deserve huge credit, not only for the programme’s quality, but for producing it within the current deplorable state of education in…
There has been quite the furore over the Government’s National Strategy for Women and Girls. To me, ‘tradwife’ is the updated term for the Irish Mammy: a no-nonsense woman with traditional values, self-assured and perfectly content raising her children at home. ‘Irish Mammy’ was never exactly a term of endearment, but it carries affection and…
I was at Mass recently and the Gospel reading was from St John—the passage where Christ says: “Take courage; I have conquered the world.” As is the norm, the priest gave a homily afterwards, explaining how the Gospel can be applied “in real life”. He explained that none of us escapes life’s challenges or trials.…