Posted on 10. Sep, 2020 in Community, Poverty, Schools
Retired, widowed and open to new challenges is how Beth Nunan would describe herself. When her husband was dead two years a friend suggested that she should ‘do something’ – so she did. She travelled to Pakistan to help with a teaching programme and then she did it again and again. It’s a story of […]
Posted on 27. Aug, 2020 in Religious teaching
Hearing voices and having mystical experiences were often in the past taken as signs of deep spiritual intuition. More recently they have been commonly seen as signs of psychosis or a troubled mind. In this piece from the archives, from 2011, Dr Janet Ruffing RSM, Professor in the Practice of Spirituality and Ministerial Leadership Yale […]
Posted on 02. Jul, 2020 in Prayer, Schools, Spiritual, Spirituality
Christian meditation is experiencing a revival as the John Main tradition of meditation is spreading throughout the country. In this piece from the archive we hear from Noel Keating, who works on a voluntary basis as Coordinaor of Meditation with Children for Christian Meditation Ireland. Noel Keating has been involved with meditation for over 15 years […]
Posted on 04. Jun, 2020 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Community, Schools
Tiernan O’Neill has spent over 12 years working in Corpus Christi primary school in Moyross, as a class teacher, home-school-community liaison co-ordinator and now Principal. He has seen first hand the devastating consequences of poverty and educational underachievement, but Covid-19 has led to increased difficulties. The lack of broadband and laptops is creating a “digital […]
Posted on 16. Jan, 2020 in Discrimination, Relationships, Schools
Bullying is a huge problem in schools throughout the country. But what goes on in the minds of the bully and how can we help them change their ways? In this piece from the archive, we speak with Cathy Finnegan is a guidance councillor in Wilson Hospital School in Co. Westmeath who was undertaking research into […]
Posted on 05. Sep, 2019 in Christian Values, Gospel Values, Humane Vitae, Schools
John Bruton, who served as Taoiseach from 1994 to 1997, was one of the youngest every members of the Dáil – elected at only 22. Educated in Clongowes Wood College, he says that his education there gave him a good formation in his Catholic Faith, and that his time in politics thought him about compromise and […]
Posted on 22. Aug, 2019 in Education, Schools, Young people
In this piece from March 2005, we look at the joy of reading. Reading is beneficial to people of all ages. Megan White, librarian and teacher, talks to Miriam Gormally about her love of reading, her favourite books and the recent event in her library for multiple sclerosis. She talks about what , in her […]
Posted on 16. Jul, 2019 in Relationships, Schools, Young people
Young people all over Ireland are enjoying their summer holidays, likely glad of the break. However there are many more children in the world who don’t get to go school and who would love access to education. In this piece from 2009, we hear from Maureen Forest who runs the Hope foundation, which helps street […]
Posted on 07. Feb, 2019 in Achievement, Community, Humanitarian Aid, Schools, Young people
Will Robbins is a Gonzaga student who has set up a business selling hoodies to raise money to build a secondary school in Zambia. Here he talks with Pat Coyle about how a chance encounter in Zambia, turned him into a social entrepreneur (with a little help from his friends). He discusses his experience building […]
Posted on 24. Aug, 2017 in Church Teachings, Faith and Justice, Religious teaching
This piece from 2006 looks at guardian angels for little people. ‘Oh Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God’s love commits me here…..’ are some of the most familiar lines many of us learned at a very early age – probably the first time we became aware of Angels – how they care […]