Most people don’t know how many AI startups have emerged over the past few months. Even in our Catholic circle, Magisterium AI has been the forefront of the Catholic AI space, with a robust database and thousands of users that have found the website extremely helpful. Other big tech companies have now made it their…
When should you cancel your subscription to a streaming channel? I’m not referring here to trying to save yourself some money, but more to save your sanity and also to object to some of the content a given channel is streaming. Netflix is currently embroiled in controversy over a show called Dead End: Paranormal Park,…
I reported, over a month ago, on the ubiquity of the Union Jack and St George flags now so popularly flown across England. And since travelling between England and Ireland, I’ve noticed the Irish tricolour has been increasingly displayed in parts of Dublin, fluttering from private homes and from street furniture. And now, it seems,…
When we were growing up, there were certain things that were so taken for granted we didn’t even think about it, such as that every baby would be baptised, and that later in childhood they would make their First Holy Communion followed by Confirmation. Most of us would go on to marry, and when we…
It’s been ninety-five years since Bill Gribbin was baptised and he is not only living out his Christian mission, as father, grandfather and great grandfather, but as sacristan of St Michael’s The Archangel parish in Belfast. Observing him prepare the altar and the incense for a requiem mass last week, it occurred to me, he…
Maria Steen was blocked from the presidential election because the political establishment feared that she would win the arguments and potentially the presidential election. Maria is a bright, intelligent and articulate woman who would have made a big impact. More importantly she has a backbone and will stand up for what she believes in. That…
Many people will know us from the Word Magazine, Christmas Cards and our Lenten and November appeals at Donamon Castle and Kairos Communications and our Language School at Maynooth. Founded by St Arnold Jannsen, in Steyl, Holland, we have been sending young Irish missionaries abroad since 1938 from our Donamon House in Co. Roscommon. Initially,…
Self-help manuals are big business today (a book called Let Them continues to be a leading best-seller). One of the most interesting self-help philosophies, I’ve found, is Stoicism. Deriving from the classical world of Greece and Rome, the counsel of Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius encourage us to accept what we cannot change and focus…
Last week, a very unusual package, no, ‘unusual’ is not the word, a sinister and menacing package arrived by post at the office of the Iona Institute in Dublin city centre. It looked innocent enough, but upon opening it, some kind of white powder poured out on my desk, hands and floor. I guessed immediately…
Ceann Comhairle, Verona Murphy, recently talked about the vast increase in threats to politicians. This includes intimidation to the extent that the police advised one politician to avoid venturing into the city centre and instead to stay in the environs of Leinster House. Ms Murphy also talked about fake profiles being set up online purely…
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