To Live is to Change

To Live is to Change

In 1845, John Henry Newman, one time Anglican Priest and later Roman Catholic Cardinal wrote ‘To live is to change’. His comments described both the world as he observed it, and life, as he experienced it. Change is all around us in Ireland today. Finton O’Toole gives...
Beyond and Between

Beyond and Between

Something shifted inside me when I became a dad. I could not put my finger on it until someone offered that to be a parent is forever to have a piece of your heart running around in the world outside of yourself. Little human beings, complete in and of the full span...
Harming Free Speech?

Harming Free Speech?

As Christians we instinctively want to defend the human right to free speech, because it encapsulates our right to worship God, proclaim the Gospel and explain the practice of our faith. Fortunately in the UK the legal framework and the political consensus is to...
We don’t know ourselves!

We don’t know ourselves!

One of my Christmas presents in 2021 was Fintan O’Toole’s new book, “We don’t know ourselves, a personal history of Ireland since 1958”. Being quarantined in the house for a week, I confess I devoured the book quicker than the Christmas cake. O’Toole, born in...