Turas Columbanus exhibition for National Heritage Week

Turas Columbanus exhibition for National Heritage Week

An exhibition of photographs showing stunning images from the Turas Columbanus/Columban Way pilgrim route will open in Dalgan on Sunday as part of National Heritage Week 2019. The photo display shows scenes from Tara, Bective, Bunclody and Bangor in Ireland as well as...
Amazonia Synod 10: Change cannot just be cosmetic

Amazonia Synod 10: Change cannot just be cosmetic

This reflection by Fr Jim Mulroney is the tenth in a series of Columban articles published in preparation for the Synod on Amazonia at the Vatican in October 2019. High on a mountain in Australia’s southern island-state of Tasmania, an enthusiastic young guide...
“Go Home! I am at Home!”

“Go Home! I am at Home!”

Fr Bobby Gilmore responds to the rise in racist nativism and President Trump’s recent attack on four congresswomen telling them to “go back to where they came from”.  “Home is a place where, when you go there, they have to let you in. Something...
Remembering Fr Donal O’Dea

Remembering Fr Donal O’Dea

Fr Pat Raleigh delivered the following homily at the funeral Mass for Fr Donal O’Dea at St Columban’s, Dalgan Park, Navan on 29 July 2019. Each one of us gathered here this morning, in this lovely Chapel where Donal was ordained, will bring our own memories of him. I...