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  • And the walls came tumbling down…

    January 15 2019
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Paddy, Seamus: Brian Glanville (who always had a high opinion of Hugh McIlvanney's sports journalism) is still going strong at 87. My favourite Glanvillism from the early 1960s (which I last used here

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  • Daniel O’Leary R.I.P.

    January 22 2019
    amanda clancy

    Weren't we so lucky to have known him?

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  • Daniel O’Leary R.I.P.

    January 22 2019
    Brigid Murphy

    Thank you Daniel for many years of sharing wisdom. I first met Daniel 25 years ago but came to know him more personally when I worked in Leeds. His ability to harvest wisdom from so many sources and s

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  • Daniel O’Leary R.I.P.

    January 22 2019
    Ann Fowler

    Daniel was gracious enough to come many times to our diocese to work with our teachers. He became a friend whose passion for his work inspired us all. He was gentle and compassionate and his words gav

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  • A new style of leadership needed for the church in Ireland

    January 23 2019
    Jane Delaney

    I am finding the comments as informative & as interesting as the articles themselves, and I say that with the greatest of respect for everyone! Highlights for me that we can all be looking out the

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  • A new style of leadership needed for the church in Ireland

    January 23 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    Given the age profile of clergy now and virtually empty seminaries, Unicorns are as likely to turn up now as ideal bishops. Consider instead that ‘command Catholicism’ is dying for a reason. Wil

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  • And the walls came tumbling down…

    January 15 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Very well said, Seamus, especially your reference to the latter day Bard of Ayrshire, the Great Hugh. Isn't it ironic that we were told of his passing on the very day we annually remember the first Ba

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  • Daniel O’Leary R.I.P.

    January 22 2019
    Jeannette Dale

    Fr Daniel was a lovely, warm, holy man who radiated God’s love to all who knew him. I am so grateful and feel very privileged to have attended retreats that he led. For me he wonderfully reflected t

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  • And the walls came tumbling down…

    January 15 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    Today, the Feast of the Great Bard of Ayrshire is celebrated. (Never mind Paul and his conversion for the moment). Rabbie Burns. He brought colour and beauty and mischief to life and language. He tea

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  • Daniel O’Leary R.I.P.

    January 22 2019
    Cliodhna O Callaghan

    My main aim in writing this piece is to request that someone out there who knew this amazing individual and wordsmith could write an obituary to be sent to the Irish Times eg opinion@irishtimes.com So

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