Migrants’ Calls to Reduce Immigration Fees Ignored

Migrants’ Calls to Reduce Immigration Fees Ignored

Last week Minister for Finance Jack Chambers announced a range of generous measures as part of Budget 2025. However, the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI), of which Columban Fr Bobby Gilmore was a founding member, has warned that no reduction in the €300 Irish...
‘There is a Season for Everything…’

‘There is a Season for Everything…’

‘There is a season for everything, a time for every purpose under heaven’ (Ecclesiastes 3:1) We human beings like to mark special moments in time – a birthday, a wedding anniversary, a golden jubilee, a centenary. This year as we, Columban Sisters, mark 100 years of...
Jemuel’s Story

Jemuel’s Story

Fr Vincent Busch recounts how a young Subanen man managed to escape with his life but not without injury from Jihadists in Mindanao. Thanks to the Columbans he is now recovered and a skilled Subanen Crafter. The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral...
Columban Sisters Celebrate 100 Years of Mission

Columban Sisters Celebrate 100 Years of Mission

The Missionary Sisters of St Columban gathered in St Patrick’s Church, Wicklow on Sunday 29th September 2024 to mark the centenary of the establishment as a congregation. Bishop Donal Roche of the Archdiocese of Dublin presided at the Centenary Mass which was...
Faith Leaders Visit Dalgan After Dublin Seminar

Faith Leaders Visit Dalgan After Dublin Seminar

Columban missionary, Fr Pat Colgan, who is a member of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum, writes about the recent gathering in Dublin which brought together representatives of the major faiths in Ireland and Britain and concluded with a visit to Dalgan. On 24th...