Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Dunboyne School
The official opening of a new school building for St Peter’s National School, Dunboyne, earlier this month is a cause for celebration. The ceremony was performed by the Minister for Education, Ms Helen McEntee. Bishop Pat Storey, local TDs and a range of local political representatives and dignitaries were also in attendance.
St Peter’s is the parish school for Dunboyne & Rathmolyon group of parishes, in the Dioceses of Meath & Kildare. Before it opened, 20 years ago, there was no National School in the parish group, an area of some 200 square miles. At that time children had travelled to school in other parishes including Lucan, Navan, Castleknock, or attended locally.
The school began with 22 pupils and two teachers and by 2014 St Peter’s had 98 pupils and six teachers. Whilst still being accommodated in temporary accommodation it looked forward to a time when it would be able to be housed in more permanent facilities.
Bishop Pat Storey said, “The opening of this new school building is the culmination of vision and decades of hard work by teachers, parents, pupils and volunteers.”
Whilst being the parish school for Dunboyne & Rathmolyon group St Peter’s welcomes children of all faith backgrounds. Joan Bruton, a member of the Board of Management, has previously said that the school “is a symbol of how the Church of Ireland sees itself as a part of the community. We could not exist without the wonderful support of our neighbours”.
The series of lunchtime concerts, Summer Music at Sandford, continues today (Friday) in Sandford parish church, Ranelagh, at 1.10pm when the Tempro Vocal Ensemble will sing.
This evening (Friday) at 6.30pm in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, the Annual Pride Service will be held. The preacher will be the Bishop of Michigan, the Rt Revd Bonnie Perry.
Bishop Perry will also preach at the Patronal Festival Eucharist in Christ Church on Sunday morning at 11am. Following the Eucharist, at 1pm, the Friends of Christ Church will hold their AGM.
Tomorrow (Saturday) the June Piano Festival continues in Calary parish church, Co. Wicklow, with a performance by Lorna Breen (soprano), Sarah Kilcoyne (mezzo) and Adam McDonagh while on Wednesday the performers will be Duo Lyrica – Fionnuala Moynihan (piano) and Kieran Moynihan (flute). The concerts will begin at 8pm. To book tickets or for further information, email [email protected] or ring (01) 281 8118.
The Pipeworks organ festival begins on Wednesday in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dubin, where at 7,30pm there will be ‘Pipeworks at the Movies’ – a block busting concert of favourite movie themes played by Stuart Nicholson.
The Revd Ian Berry, Rector of the Lurgan (Virginia) group of parishes, has been appointed by Bishop Ferran Glenfield as the new Archdeacon of Kilmore in succession to the Ven. Ian Horner who will be instituted as Rector of the Mullingar union of parishes in the coming weeks.
Published in the Friday edition of The Irish Times