Pupils from St Matthias’ Church of Ireland National School, Ballydehob, Co Cork were among the top scorers in a recent international informatics challenge in which three–quarters of a million other school–children took part from over 40 countries around the world.
Twelve candles are today burning in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, in tribute to the 12 people killed in the attack in Paris yesterday.
The steps of St Anne’s Cathedral were ablaze with light on New Year’s Eve as Bishop Harold Miller led the Diocese of Down and Dromore into a Year of Mission.
Archbishop Michael Jackson’s Christmas Day sermon preached at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
The Revd Hilary Dungan has been appointed interim Church of Ireland Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, following the departure of the Revd Darren McCallig who has taken up the post of Chaplain of St Alban’s in Copenhagen in the Diocese of Europe.
At the service of Nine Lessons and Carols on 21 December 2014, a special offering was held in memory of Canon Cheevers, with the money raised going to support the research work of Professor MF McMullan of Haematology at Queens’s University, Belfast.
A new initiative to source ICT equipment for schools, the brainchild of teachers from Bandon Grammar School, is underway.