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George Morrison
May 31, 2014

The Book

The closure of “All Hallows” College in Dublin last week has brought to light the plight of colleges offering courses in theology, ethics and social justice in a society which no longer rates these subjects highly. In conjunction with many other such colleges they lack the money to continue despite the fact that they are […]

May 24, 2014

Kidnapping Kids

There cannot be many softer targets for well armed soldiers to engage than the kidnapping of teenage schoolgirls. These heavily armed men of the Muslin Boko Haram tribe in the name of Allah raided the dormitory of a girl’s school. The raid was carried out in the middle of the night, darkness permitting some to […]

May 17, 2014

Telling the Truth

When we left Ireland at the end of April, Charities were under scrutiny for concealing the truth about their money and when we came back this week we find the Garda have been in the dock over allegations of malpractice and incompetence. The news in America is very staid by comparison! With the history of […]

April 26, 2014

Religion in Retrospect

Easter has come and gone and perhaps we should reflect on what an impact religion has made on the world we live in and also on ourselves. In a popular move in Rome Pope Francis will canonise two of his predecessors. They meet their Church’s requirements and so Pope John Paul 11 and Pope John […]

April 19, 2014

Bankers Business

Two were found to be guilty and the other released! The first of the trails into the affairs of Irish Banking during those fateful years -2007/2008, when boom turned to bust, was played out this week. We learned that when the Bank is about to go bust the best job is to have is the […]

April 12, 2014

Pride not Prejudice

Many of our prejudices against ‘all things British’ were dissolved this week by the smiles and friendliness of the Queen and our President. The four day State visit to the UK, with multiple speeches creating multiple opportunities to blunder, was navigated with aplomb on both sides. Pride replaced prejudice and filtered through the four classical […]

April 5, 2014

A Right Royal Show

There is no doubt but that the Brits are in a league of their own when it comes to State visits. Better than anyone they can turn on the style. Recipient of this treatment in the coming week will be our President Higgins with his wife Sabina. Everyone who is anyone will be there. Over […]

March 29, 2014

U.K.’s Same-Sex Wedding Day.

Queues formed at various venues in the U.K. last night as Same-Sex Couples vied for the distinction of being the first to tie the marriage knot under the new legislation permitting same-sex “marriage” which came into force today. Marriage in the Bible has taking quite a hammering over the years going from the excesses of […]

March 22, 2014

Christine Buckley

When Christine was 3 weeks old she was placed in the first of a number of foster homes until at the age of 4 she entered St. Vincent’s Industrial School, in Goldenbridge, run by the Sisters of Mercy. This was the year 1950. She was the daughter of 31-year-old married woman and a 20-year-old Nigerian […]

March 15, 2014

Brian O’Driscoll

Brian O’Driscoll has seldom been out of the news this week. Riding high off his “Man of the Match” performance in last Saturday’s match against Italy his stellar career on the Rugby field surpasses all the other Irish greats from times past. He has been at the centre of Irish Rugby, in more ways than […]

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