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...
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...
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...
Fr Aidan Larkin

Fr Aidan Larkin

Fr Aidan was born on 31 March 1946 in the Parish of Lissan, Cookstown, Co Tyrone. He was educated at Lissan PS and St Patrick’s College, Armagh. After Armagh he spent a year in Maynooth before leaving to complete his BA in UCD. Still feeling called to priesthood, he...