How Life Has Changed

How Life Has Changed

I had just arrived in the Philippines shortly after ordination. It was 1973 and something unprecedented was happening back home in Ireland. Limerick had made it to the All-Ireland hurling final! Desperate to find out news of how the match went I got my shortwave...
Tribute to AITECE teacher Fr Leslie McNamara

Tribute to AITECE teacher Fr Leslie McNamara

Columban Fr Joseph Houston pays tribute to Fr Leslie McNamara, former president of St Munchin’s College in Limerick, who as an AITECE teacher, taught English in China for a number of years. When she heard the news of Leslie McNamara’s death, a former student of...
Lighting the Christmas Candle at Dalgan

Lighting the Christmas Candle at Dalgan

Putting a candle in the window is a very Irish tradition which is said to date from Penal times. At Christmas the candle was often lit by the youngest child in the house and put in the window to indicate a place of welcome to the Baby Jesus and the stranger....
Fr David Francis Wall

Fr David Francis Wall

Fr David (Davy) Wall was born in Dromcollogher, Co Limerick on 1 April 1927. He was educated at Dromcollogher NS, St Mary’s Secondary School, Dromcollogher, and St Munchin’s College, Limerick. He arrived at St Columban’s College, Navan in September 1944 and was...