A collection of personal musings and photos!
People who devoted their lives wholly to service of God and the church have taken something of a hammering in Irish society in recent decades. This in of the reasons they have almost become invisible. So we may think they […]
Sunday is a day of rest, a day for the spirit, mind and body. It’s also a day for the transcendent, the Divine. Today, after my local celebrations in church for the feast of the Holy Family, I took a […]
My historical sense of catholicism in Ireland, which I learned in school, was speckled with events that were depicted as reference points in Irish history. The Wild Geese, Cromwell, Fr Murphy of Boolavogue, Nano Nagle, Daniel O’Connell and Catholic Emancipation, the Great Famine […]
Religious sisters (a.k.a. nuns) have received a lot of negative attention in recent years. While some of it is justified in the case of some individuals, the wide brush of public opinion has also done a lot of injustice to […]
Yes, everyone knows that Kerry went home with the Sam Maguire again. But while the lads were kicking away in Croke Park, a Corkwoman was swimming her way into the record books by becoming the first Irish person ever to […]
As the Cork football teams heads for Dublin to contest the All-Ireland Football Final tomorrow, I can’t help but recall the last time the famous Sam Maguire Cup was brought back to Cork. I was chaplain at Scoil Mhic Shuibhne, […]
Was at the out-patient clinics in the CUHospital today. They have a strange system for processing patients. You are given a time with your appointment but, in fact, everyone arrives way ahead and the order in which people are seen […]
No wonder religious traditions have harvest thanksgiving rituals! It’s easy to see how they might have started given the recent weather in West Cork, Ireland! At last, the farmers are out at their harvest — though the rain and late […]