Brendan Hoban: There are no votes to be got in truth-telling
Western People 3.12.24 I remember well the famous election of 1977 when Jack Lynch led the Fianna Fáil party to a landslide victory with 84 seats and a whopping 21-seat…
Month: December 2024
Séamus Ahearne: ‘Every revolution was once a thought in one person’s mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
MasterChef; Conor McGregor; Donald Trump: Gregg Wallace is in big trouble. After twenty years of being a central character on TV with MasterChef, he has been called out, for his…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership weekly Sunday homily – 2nd Sunday Advent 2024
2nd Week of Advent 2024 (C) – Theme: Patience
Final Appeal as Survey Deadline Looms…An appeal to priests to take part in a survey on suicide
Tim Hazelwood writes: A final appeal for Priests to take part in the Survey being Conducted by UCC/National Office or Suicide Prevention. Please take the survey as it is aimed…
Presider’s Page for 8 December (Advent 2)
John the Baptist is the focus of the liturgy on the Second Sunday of Advent each year. His challenge to us to ‘prepare a way for the Lord’ is at the heart of the Advent message. We worship the one who will surely come to us.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 3 Dec – Mon 9 Dec 2024
More seeds for the sowing. Please pray that as they go out to the four winds that they will reach where they are meant to reach and touch the lives…
Brendan Hoban: Cathedral is still the jewel in Ballina’s crown
Western People 26.11.24 Last year when President Joe Biden visited Ballina and, from outside St Muredach’s Cathedral, addressed thousands of people encircled at every possible vantage-point around the loop of…
Chris McDonnell: Four Haikus for Advent
Haiku is a Japanese poetry structure of seventeen syllables, arranged in three lines. Here are four haikus for Advent set within a brief commentary, Four Advent haikus Advent -1- Fog found…
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