Columban Schools 2024 Competition Winners

Columban Schools 2024 Competition Winners

Winners have been announced in the schools media competition for young people run by the Columbans in Britain and Ireland. This year’s theme was ‘Biodiversity Matters.’ The announcement day – 21 March – is the UN’s International Day of Forests. Young...
Fr Pat Colgan Presents Awards to 2023 Competition Winners

Fr Pat Colgan Presents Awards to 2023 Competition Winners

Columban missionary Fr Pat Colgan has been visiting and presenting some of the awards to winners in the 2023 Columban Schools Media competition. Young people aged 13-18 years were asked to produce an article or image that demonstrated an awareness and understanding of...
Archbishop to Launch Book on St Patrick by Fr Aidan Larkin

Archbishop to Launch Book on St Patrick by Fr Aidan Larkin

We are delighted that the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, will launch, ‘The Spiritual Journey of St Patrick’ by Columban missionary Fr Aidan Larkin in Dalgan on 30th May 2023 at 7pm. Fr Aidan died in 2019. He was working on...
Columban listed among UCD’s most exceptional alumni

Columban listed among UCD’s most exceptional alumni

Columban missionary Fr Michael Riordan has been listed among 20 exceptional alumni of UCD’s School of Veterinary Medicine to mark the anniversary of the faculty’s move to the Veterinary Sciences Centre on UCD’s Belfield campus. The alumni selected are listed on a wall...
Fr Aidan Larkin

Fr Aidan Larkin

Fr Aidan was born on 31 March 1946 in the Parish of Lissan, Cookstown, Co Tyrone. He was educated at Lissan PS and St Patrick’s College, Armagh. After Armagh he spent a year in Maynooth before leaving to complete his BA in UCD. Still feeling called to priesthood, he...