November Far East Focuses on St Columbanus

November Far East Focuses on St Columbanus

The November issue of the Far East magazine has a number of features relating to St Columbanus, as well as articles on pilgrimage, remembering our beloved dead, and a sociological study of the Irish missionary diaspora. From just €10 for a digital subscription and €20...
Columbans Interviewed for Missionaries Documentary

Columbans Interviewed for Missionaries Documentary

Since St Columba and St Columbanus Irish missionaries have followed the example of our ‘saints and scholars’ in taking their faith to every corner of the known world. At the peak of the Irish missionary movement, in the 1960s, over 6,000 Irish Catholic missionaries...
Remembering Niall

Remembering Niall

I was blessed to be a classmate and a dear friend of the late Fr Niall O’Brien. He was a wonderful person, artistic, intelligent, an excellent writer, a man of deep spirituality with an infectious sense of humour. He had a gift for learning languages and quickly...
Fr Cyril Addresses 1,000 Students as Prize is Presented

Fr Cyril Addresses 1,000 Students as Prize is Presented

Fr Cyril Lovett visited Le Chéile Secondary School in Tyrrelstown to present Keelin Bellemand with her prize for her second place in this year’s Columban Schools Media Competition on the theme ‘Biodiversity Matters’. Keelin’s teacher, Ms Elaine Cowley, encouraged...