Let’s Walk Together to Cleenish Island

Let’s Walk Together to Cleenish Island

We are inviting people to take part in a one-day pilgrim walk to Cleenish Island’s Columbanus site. St Columbanus came to Cleenish Island as a young man to study under St Sinell, who had founded a monastery on the shores of Lough Erne. The site that we are visiting...
A Legacy Worth Revisiting

A Legacy Worth Revisiting

Fr Hugh MacMahon explains how the Elders of the Desert and the Skelligs inspired him to write his new book. What prompted me to write Voices from the Desert: The Lost Legacy of Skelligs was the need to find answers to questions that had long bothered me. They began...
St Columban: “more an eagle than a dove”

St Columban: “more an eagle than a dove”

To mark the Feast day of St Columban – patron of the Columbans – we publish an extract of Sr Redempta Twomey’s 2015 talks for RTE Radio on this inspirational Irish missionary who died in Bobbio in 615. In the Columban chapel in Dalgan, Co Meath there is a little...
Celebrate the Feast of St Columbanus on 23rd November

Celebrate the Feast of St Columbanus on 23rd November

Celebrate the Feast of St Columbanus with the Columbans in Dalgan Park, Navan Monday 23rd November 2020 at 7pm. We invite our families, supporters, co-workers, friends of Columbanus to tune into our Eucharist to give thanks and pray together as we continue to support...