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www.trocaire.org Trócaire ( Irish pronunciation: [ˈt̪ˠɾˠoːkəɾʲə] , meaning " compassion ") [ 2 ] is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland . Trócaire is a member of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation and its subregion Caritas Europa as well as of the Catholic NGO network CIDSE and ...
The Israeli ambassador to Ireland, Ophir Kariv said "it would make Ireland the most extreme anti-Israel country in the western world and entrench it deeply on the wrong side of history.", [90] [89] while supporters of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) policies reportedly described the bill as a "victory for the BDS movement" and Trócaire's ...
Crean was born in Tralee, County Kerry on 16 December 1951, one of eight children to Patrick Crean and his wife Margaret (née O’Donnell). [1] He attended primary and secondary school in Tralee and at St Brendan's College, Killarney, before studying for the priesthood at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, and at the Pontifical Irish College ...
Maynooth (/ m ə ˈ n uː θ /; Irish: Maigh Nuad) is a university town in north County Kildare, Ireland.It is home to Maynooth University (part of the National University of Ireland and also known as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and St Patrick's College, a Pontifical University and Ireland's sole Roman Catholic seminary.
The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [1] (commonly known as the Occupied Territories Bill [2]) is a proposed Irish law that would ban and criminalise "trade with and economic support for illegal settlements in territories deemed occupied under international law", most notably Israeli settlements in Israeli-occupied territories. [3]
Pope Francis visited Ireland in 2018 upon invitation extended to the Supreme Pontiff by Ireland's Catholic bishops to visit the country in August 2018 for the World Meeting of Families. [41] This was only the second visit of a pope to the country, the first one having taken place in 1979 with John Paul II .
There are three primary schools in the town: Monastery Boys National School, Scoil Mhuire na Trocaire Girls School and Ardee Educate Together. Ardee Educate Together is a multi-cultural primary school for both girls and boys. Ballapousta National School is located just outside the town and (as of early 2020) had approximately 220 pupils. [31]
The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house " fallen women ", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in Ireland.