Holy week is a time of many processions, a form of celebration and prayer beloved by Filipinos and myself. The first is Palm Sunday, when the Lord Jesus, seated upon a donkey, is led into Jerusalem by a joyous crowd, waving palm branches, chanting hosannas and acclaiming him as “Son of David” (Matt: 21:9). I […]
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A the false dilemma: “would they rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?”
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When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant.
President Joe Biden chose an awkward week to promote one of his favourite causes
How did it come to this? The powers-that-be have decided to lift the eviction ban as working families face homelessness. We simply do not have enough housing for our population – never mind the influx of refugees. The housing crisis is not new, it is exacerbated at the moment, but not new. An Irish Times January 2020 analysis of […]
It was estimated that more than 400 people died at Doolough
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In 1974 local farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian came across one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made
In March 2003, in a bog on the border of Meath and Offaly, in a place called Clonycavan, a body emerged from the peat beneath the shovel of a cutting machine.
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