Fr Bobby Gilmore pays tribute to John Hume

Fr Bobby Gilmore pays tribute to John Hume

Sometime towards the end of the 1960s while listening to the BBC World Service the name of John Hume came across the undulating air waves. His name was connected to what was described as unrest in Northern Ireland arising out of discrimination felt over time by the...
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...