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...
I Protest, Therefore I am

I Protest, Therefore I am

Are rising levels of inequality, exclusion and the denial of participation a reason to protest asks Columban Fr Bobby Gilmore. History is made by successive shocks, of confronting and overcoming successive challenges. Societies progress, and in the end, having...
Europe’s Ghost: the Immigrant, the Other

Europe’s Ghost: the Immigrant, the Other

We are who we are because of migration. Migration has created the world we are part of today, writes Columban Missionary Fr Bobby Gilmore. The immigrant has become a contemporary passion in Europe, the vacant point around which ideals clash. Easily available as a...