Newsletters

I have included 12 different newsletters as they have arrived in to me over the last few weeks and they cover all manner of issue from both Ireland and from the UK, You can access these here

Eco Congregation Award

The Presentation Sisters in Ireland will receive an Eco-Congregation Award which we hope will be presented at our convention next year. The assessing team will speak with some of our Sisters involved in our Challenge to Change Programme. To have a look at our submission you can click here

Degrowth

I attended a very appropriate and timely event about Degrowth that examined the notion that economic growth as we pursue it is not compatible with achievement of the SDGs. To read more about this click here

Advent

We have collected some wonderful resources for the season of Advent inclusive of calendars, prayers, readings and insights and they can be view here

COP25

I have built a new website that will give an account of all that goes on at the COP25 in Madrid over the next two weeks. You can keep up here

UK Elections 2019

Still undecided? UNderstand the manifestos? What do you want from a candidate? Have you questions to hand? This and more here

North East Province Justice Day

We has a wonderful day in Mount Saint Anne's in the company of some powerful speaker with inspiring messages of hope. You can catch up on all that happened at the Province Day here

Cork Inter-generational Climate Conference

This was a really interesting and engaging event where even President Higgins when he visited, he travelled by train. Young and old came together to explore themes around an intergenerational response to the issue of Climate Change. My report is here

#16Days of Activism

We have been involved with the International Presentation Association in our activism around the #16Days of Activism creating a greater awareness gender based violence against women. This campaign runs from Nov 25th - Dec 10th (Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day) There is a separate pamphlet that has been prepared for each day by the Future We Need Group where Sr. Maureen O' Connell is a contributor. We are putting all on Facebook here and on twitter here

Day 1 Here

Day 2 Here

Day 3 Here

Day 4 Here

Day 5 Here

Day 6 Here

Day 7 Here

Day 8 Here

Day 9 Here

Day 10 Here

Day 11 Here

Day 12 Here

Day 13 Here

Day 14 Here

Day 15 Here

Day 16 Here

And we take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas.