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Brendan Hoban: Irish banks are up to their usual old tricks                                

Western People 22.8.2023 For institutions a sense of entitlement can be the first step to oblivion. We’re special. We’re different. We’re not ‘like other men’. (Luke 18.11) Thus the pharisees,…

Séamus Ahearne: “The biggest shift in my lifetime has been the evaporation of the transcendent from all our discourse and our sense of human destiny.” (John Scally quotes from a final note he got from Seamus Heaney).     

FIFTY YEARS A PRIEST: In two weeks, I will be fifty years a priest. I can’t believe how it is possible for these years to have gone by so rapidly….

Séamus Ahearne: ‘I look; morning to night, I am never done looking. Looking I mean, not just standing around, but standing around, as though with your arms open.’ (Mary Oliver – Where does the Temple begin?)

The Graves speak: I was down in Glasnevin this afternoon to visit the Augustinian graves. The names and the dates shocked me. All those old men who had died were…

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