Ireland's Jesuits 'ashamed' of order's failure to act on abuse
The order admitted it was slow to prioritize safeguards even when the church in Ireland adopted binding norms in 1996
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The order admitted it was slow to prioritize safeguards even when the church in Ireland adopted binding norms in 1996
'Charlie had a smile as wide as the Foyle Bridge'
Alexander Nimmo made a survey of Lough Corrib almost 200 years ago in which he wrote the following: “The lake has 50 miles of shore, occupies 30,000 Irish acres and contains 1,000 acres of arable land in its isles, and contracts into a very spacious river about two and a half miles above Galway, which, flowing by the town, communicates with the Atlantic. The fall from the summit of the lake to the sea is considerable, but to the Wood Quay, above the town, it is trifling, and the river is in parts very shallow, running over a bed of rocks and hard gravel. It is not navigable from the sea ...
Fifty years ago, Brigit Farley learned about the death of a teenager named John “Jackie” Duddy.
When Robert Ballagh, the outstanding contemporary Irish painter, found a growing need to make a statement on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he felt more and more drawn to paintings that had impacted on him in the past.