Update on Fr Neil’s Quake Damaged College

Update on Fr Neil’s Quake Damaged College

Columban Fr Neil Magill founded the Higher Education College (HEC) in Mandalay (Myanmar) in 2007. In March 2025, the college was badly damaged by the massive earthquake that hit Myanmar. The epicentre of the 7.7 magnitude quake was close to the city of Mandalay,...
A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

During my time in Korea, I cared for patients suffering from Hansen’s disease, more commonly known as leprosy, a word we rarely use nowadays due to the stigma attached to it. I worked in a small 30-bed hospital with an Outpatient Skin Clinic. The doctor interviewing...
Fr Brendan Joseph Patrick Murray

Fr Brendan Joseph Patrick Murray

Fr Brendan Joseph Patrick Murray was born on 22nd September 1932 at Louville, Ahascragh, Co Galway. He was educated at Ahascragh NS and St Joseph’s College, Garbally, Ballinasloe. Brendan came to Dalgan in September 1950 and was an exchange student in the USA from...
Korean Revives Knitwear Brand Founded by Fr PJ

Korean Revives Knitwear Brand Founded by Fr PJ

The Korea Times has published a report on a Korean company which is breathing new life into Hallimhandweavers, Jeju island’s wool knitwear brand founded in 1959 by Columban Missionary Fr (PJ) Patrick James McGlinchey. In the 1950s, in the wake of the Korean War, Fr...
Posthumous Distinguished Alumni Award for Fr Kevin

Posthumous Distinguished Alumni Award for Fr Kevin

The Irish Ambassador to Korea, Michelle Winthrop, received on behalf of the late Columban Missionary Fr Kevin O’Rourke, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Fr Kevin O’Rourke is the first foreign national to receive this honour. It was...