Photo was taken last Thursday during the St Patrick’s Day parade in Millstreet, Co.Cork (Irl)



Well this group of youngsters won the ‘Aaahhh’ of the day award last Thursday! Definitely the best way to get around!

Thought on Saturday – March – 19/03/2016



Last Tuesday was a day of song, music, drama, poetry and art in Ireland’s 4,000 schools and third-level colleges as they celebrated Proclamation Day, commemorating events of Ireland in 1916 and creating a vision for the country in the future. The Irish flag was raised in each school with a reading of the Proclamation from 1916. A lovely addition was the reading of the students own Proclamation and included issues they feel are important 100 years on. Many of these new proclamations included a voice for the homeless and poor.

St Patrick had his own beautiful proclamation too. At the heart of his proclamation is that God is present in the very heartbeat of life and that God is close and near to us not just occasionally but every moment of every single day. He summed up his proclamation in the beautiful prayer of St Patrick


Christ be with me

Christ within me

Christ behind me

Christ before me

Christ beside me

Christ to win me

Christ to comfort and restore me

Christ beneath me

Christ above me

Christ in quiet and in danger

Christ in the hearts of all that love me

Amen