Lovely music from Ruairi Byrne and Clonard Parish Church Folk Group on Mass on Sunday on RTĂ1 now. Anyone whoâs joined late can catch mass in full at 12pm on RTĂ+1.
Bollox. +1 programmes donât start until 7pm.
I went to mass in Clonard manys the time as a young lad holidaying in Wexford. Was/is there some nearby parish hall as well, which was the location of my first junior disco back in 94
There was a huge adjoining community centre back in the day before the church renovation. That was home to Clonard Youth Club and hosted junior discos and other community activities.
Here How is "The Faythe "pronounced down yeâre way. I remember repping down there a few years back and I was with a customer and was looking for directions to go to the âfaithâ as I pronounced it but he told me I was wrong. Canât remember the correct pronunciation
Think fight but with a th pronounciation at the end rather than a t
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Staff and parents âupsetâ after bishop appoints priest as principal of school
Bishop of Killaloe accused of âlack of respectâ for St Flannanâs college staff
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Fr Ignatius McCormack: appointed to the post without it being advertised
PATSY MCGARRY
The appointment of the only priest on the staff of St Flannanâs Diocesan College, Ennis, as its new principal is continuing to cause reverberations among staff, parents and others involved with the school.
People who have spoken to The Irish Times are strongly critical of the way Fr Ignatius McCormack (44) was appointed to the post by Bishop of Killaloe Fintan Monahan without it being advertised. St Flannanâs is a large co-educational school with 1,200 pupils and more than 80 teachers.
The current principal, Carmel Honan, has been been appointed principal at Glenstal Abbey School in Co Limerick, the first lay person and first woman to hold the post. She applied for the Glenstal post when it was advertised and took part in two rounds of interviews.
One source close to St Flannanâs said staff and parents at the school were âupsetâ at how the principalâs post in their school had been filled. The appointment was announced by the bishop earlier this month without any advertisement or open competition.
âEverybody expected it to be advertised, but instead they were presented with a fait accompli.â
Speculation
The source said that after Ms Honanâs departure was announced, there was a good deal of speculation at St Flannanâs about her likely successor and whether it would be an internal or external candidate.
âThe post has a salary of about âŹ100,000 due to the schoolâs size so it was expected to be advertised. People had aspirations.â Ms Honan was the first female principal when appointed at St Flannanâs in 2006 and Dr Kieran OâReilly was bishop of Killaloe. The post was advertised and she went through an interview process.
Her predecessor at St Flannanâs, Colm McDonagh, was its first lay principal. He was appointed in 2000 when Dr Willie Walsh was bishop of Killaloe. He too had responded to an advertisement and took part in an interview process.
âEverybody understood then that that was the end of the era of having a priest as principal,â according to another source.
Several people who spoke on condition of anonymity emphasised their concern is with the manner of the appointment and not with the priest appointed. The âway it was doneâ was âa major source of disappointment and showed a lack of respect for the large staff at the college,â one person said. It was ânot good enoughâ for Bishop Monahan to say now he was willing to talk to people who had concerns about the matter. âWhy not beforehand?â
Conducting interviews
Asked by The Irish Times why Bishop Monahan decided against advertising the post and conducting interviews, his spokesman said the bishop had made the appointment after consulting the joint managerial body on correct procedure for his making the appointment. Bishop Monahan then informed the board of management at St Flannanâs of his intention and also told its trustees. âIt was only after having made representation to these three distinct bodies and having received no objection that the appointment was made,â the spokesman said.
He said the bishop had received âvery positive feedback in relation to the appointment from a large number of people: clergy, laity, including members of the staff of the school.â
Such an appointment was not unique, he said. Recently there were âtwo voluntary secondary schools [ColĂĄiste IognĂĄid in Galway and Callan CBS in Kilkenny] where a cleric/member of a religious order has been appointed following a lay principal, the spokesman said.
He said that âby this appointment, Bishop Monahan is showing his commitment to the ideals of Catholic education.â
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they destroyed Flannans when they let girls in, Hopefully Iggy can reverse this and restore proper catholic values
Glental must have thrown in a lot of cash to leave.
And hurling
Thereâs a place in Limerick for swingers to go. You go round the back of this warehouse out by the nct centre after midnight and knock on the door and theyâll let you in if youâve a woman on your arm.
Vogue Williams was in there one night on another waste of the taxpayers money.
Its hardly still going is it?
Sending children to private schools in this country is madness.
What was she doing in there?
My regular priest broke down in tears this evening when announcing he is being transferred to another parish in September. It was a very emotional sermon.
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A shambles of an RTE program.
https://www.google.ie/amp/www.dailyedge.ie/vogue-williams-2491267-Dec2015/%3Famp%3D1
We sometimes forget that priests put down roots too and theyâll miss their friends and comrades when theyâre moved to a new ministry. May God bless him and give him the strength to take on his new challenge.
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I 
Vogue.
Where is this?
Our beloved priest leaving too
Community shocked