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DCU student Eoin Murphy is the 2021 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students that commemorates the legacy of journalist and author Mary Mulvihill (1959–2015).
Article content The Catholic calendar is rife with saints, but there is one whom everybody knows, because heâs the only saint to make it into the secular Western calendar. Every year on March 17, people all around the world fete the fifth-century bishop Patrick, or Padraig in Gaelic, with green beer. His story is also well-known, possibly the best-known next to that of Saint Nicholas. Patrick was born in 373 in either Scotland or England, to an upper-class Romano-British Christian family. His father was a deacon, and his grandfather a priest. (The requirement that clergy be unmarried onl...