Racism – accident prone?

Racism – accident prone?

Continuous denial of racism in the face of history and its daily effects in black and minority lives is dehumanising not just to those robbed of selfhood but also in those who are unable to make an honest admission that racism blights all lives, writes Fr Bobby...
Sean’s Trooper

Sean’s Trooper

In the middle of the half acre plot in which the rectory of Savannah Lar Mar Catholic parish is situated, a mango tree has pride of place, writes Fr Bobby Gilmore. Not only is the tree admired for its expanse and the shade it offers in the dead tropical heat of this...
Jack Charlton – Agent of Reconciliation

Jack Charlton – Agent of Reconciliation

Jack Charlton was an instrument of understanding and reconciliation in frayed Anglo/Irish relationships, recalls Fr Bobby Gilmore. The appointment of Jack Charlton as manager of the Ireland soccer team in the early 1980s was received with mixed opinion. People were...
Protest to Progress

Protest to Progress

Fr Bobby Gilmore considers the challenge of getting the politically deaf to hear the politically unheard in order to achieve equality before the law. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice for justice (Mt 5-6) Protest is the work of hope. Protest at its...
My Back Tooth

My Back Tooth

Fr Bobby Gilmore recalls an incident of bullying on the rugby pitch at school which woke him up to the existence of unexpected, mean, aggressive, wanton violence.  In 1953 I was in second year at boarding school. It was a school that played rugby. Coming from rural...