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Environmental insights: Creating a school garden
A group of parishes in the border area of Clogher Diocese has been busy creating a garden and prayer resource for local schoolchildren.
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Canon Kevin Graham appointed a Deputy Lieutenant
The Rev Canon Kevin Graham, rector of St Bartholomew’s in Stranmillis, Diocese of Connor, was recently appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for the County Borough of Belfast.
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Environmental insights: Climate justice discussion
As part of Dublin and Glendalough Council for Mission’s Conversations About Mission series, members and guests discussed the issue of climate justice and the Church while the COP27 climate change summit took place in Egypt last November.
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Environmental insights: New life for Belfast site
Glencairn Community Garden, at the foot of the Belfast Hills, is full of colour and life on an acre of what was previously derelict land beside St Andrew’s Parish Church.
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Environmental insights: Innovative heating
Drumcliffe Church, in Co. Sligo, is currently heated with an air–to–water heat pump and is likely to be one of few churches in Ireland using a heat pump as a heating source.
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Environmental insights: Wildflowers abounding in Aughrim
As part of National Biodiversity Week, the children of the Glebe National School, Aughrim, Co. Galway, recently conducted a wildflower survey in the Aughrim Climate Action Park and in the Rectory Garden Project.
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Environmental insights: A thriving garden
With the help of a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award, Magheralin, outside Lurgan, Co. Down, has created a beautiful garden in its church grounds.
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Environmental insights: Forest puts down roots
Among the news Bishop Paul Colton brought back from the Lambeth Conference was that of the inauguration of the Anglican Communion Forest.
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Taoiseach joins Castleknock NS for 300th anniversary celebrations
It’s not every day that the Taoiseach turns up to celebrate the 303rd birthday of your school. But for pupils of Castleknock National School in Dublin that’s exactly what happened last Wednesday morning (June 28) when Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister Jack Chambers joined them on their last day of the school year.
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History’s made as Diocese of Derry and Raphoe appoints its first female Dean
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe is to get its first female Dean following the appointment of the Rev Liz Fitzgerald as Rector of the Grouped Parishes of Raphoe, Raymochy and Clonleigh and Dean of St Eunan’s Cathedral.
