The Columban Way: a Route to Jubilee 2025

The Columban Way: a Route to Jubilee 2025

Cristian Colombo writes about the completion of the Columban Way in Italy and its recognition by the Italian Tourist Board.   It all began with a dream. St Columban’s mother dreamt that the sun descended into the womb of a woman and that this sun in turn escorted the...
Signing the Columban Charter of Partnership – Bishop Nulty

Signing the Columban Charter of Partnership – Bishop Nulty

Writing on the Kildare & Leighlin diocesan website, Bishop Denis Nulty recalls his trip to St Gallen in Switzerland earlier this month where he attended ceremonies for the XXIV Columbanus Day 2023. At the heart of the ceremonies this year was the signing of a...
Tribute to Columbans’ Role in the Columban Way

Tribute to Columbans’ Role in the Columban Way

Fianna Fáil Councillor, Fintan Phelan, paid tribute to the Columban Fathers and Columban Sisters who, he said, played “a pivotal role” in steering the new Columban Way heritage trail to completion, culminating in its official launch last weekend. Football legend and...
Soccer Legend Paul McGrath to Launch Columban Way

Soccer Legend Paul McGrath to Launch Columban Way

Irish soccer legend Paul McGrath will launch ‘The Columban Way’ this weekend at the Columban Cairn, at the Nine Stones Viewing Point on the Blackstairs Mountain. Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin will bless and lead the walk from the Cairn down into Myshall...
Columban Way has the potential to unite people of Europe

Columban Way has the potential to unite people of Europe

A conference on the legacy of St Columbanus in Dalgan Park in April learned about plans for the mapping of ‘The Columban Way’ with the aim of making it into a major cultural route in Europe. In her address at the opening of the conference, Alderman Deborah Girvan of...