Another Busy Year for the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

Another Busy Year for the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, which works to advance the rights of migrant workers and their families at risk of exploitation, social exclusion and discrimination, had another busy year according to new figures for 2023. The non-governmental organisation has...
Twenty-first Century Mission

Twenty-first Century Mission

A Christian world and a world yet to be evangelised. That situation no longer exists. The people who have not yet heard the gospel no longer live in non-western countries. They are everywhere especially in huge urban areas. In large cities new paradigms are needed. We...
Fr Bobby Signs Irish Residence Permit Petition

Fr Bobby Signs Irish Residence Permit Petition

Columban Missionary Fr Bobby Gilmore was one of 14,500 signatures on a public petition organised by the Fair Fees Campaign Group which was handed to the Minister for Justice recently asking her to reduce Irish Residence Permit Card fees. The Fair Fees campaign group...
Where are the Ideals?

Where are the Ideals?

The plight of hundreds of migrants floundering and drowning in the Mediterranean in the past week and efforts to rescue them paled in comparison to the efforts made by governments to rescue five tourists in a submersible in the vicinity of the Titanic, writes Fr Bobby...
Giving Life a New Home

Giving Life a New Home

New life in the form of new people bring new ideals of energy, creativity and inspiration writes Columban missionary Fr Bobby Gilmore, as he expresses concern over hostility towards destitute people on the move.  It was summertime and the rivulet had changed its...