Category: IRELAND, GREAT BRITAIN & MALTA

During the Year of Lasallian Vocations, the Distirct of Ireland, Great Britain and Malta will be hosting a gathering for Lasallian Women of the District and beyond. the gathering will take place 21-24 July, 2019 at one of the District’s Pastoral and Retreat Centres, St. Cassian’s Retreat Centre in Kintbury, England.

The goals of the gathering will include an opportunity:

• to provide Lasallian Formation arround the role of women from the founding story to today
• to offer reflection on living the Lasallian Vocation as women (single, married, mothers, other women religious)
• to examine the role Association for Mission for women in the mission today
• to grow a network support and community of women in the District ans Region

In the sprit os solidarity and cotinued conllaboration in the Region, and in the light of this year’s theme, Lasallians without Frontiers, we are deligted to welcome up to two women from each District in RELEM. The gathering will be in English so it wil lbe important that participants be proficient in English in order to get the most out of the programme. The approximate cost of the programme will be L 200 not including airfare and travel to the retreat centre.

Teh planning committee will be in touch in September 2018 with furter details.

Brother Laurence Hughes

Provincial

Congratulations to Harry Foley, who completed his Leaving Cert this year at De La Salle College, has been awarded a €20,000 Naughton Foundation Scholarship following a ceremony which took place in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin on Saturday.

Harry has also accepted a place at National University of Ireland, Galway studying Engineering. Supporting academic and innovative excellence in Irish students, this Scholarship Award is an investment in the future of Ireland’s reputation as a country with outstanding graduates.  In 2008 the scheme started in 3 counties and has continued to expand annually to become the nationwide program it is today.

De La Salle College Dundalk

The new term has begun and with a welcome BBQ and a full weekend of activities the boarders have enjoyed their first week back at St John’s.

Thankfully the weather cleared up nicely after the wet Friday evening, the sun was out and allowed for a full day of sport. Saturday morning saw the first of our girls’ hockey fixtures, and it was good to see some of the new boarders involved with these straight away. There was Rugby training for the Senior School boys at our Playing Fields, plus football and netball for the Junior Boarders.

On Sunday, the whole Boarding Community enjoyed ‘It’s a Knockout’: a challenge event, which involves lots of inflatable fun! The event was thankfully moved to the morning and whilst it was cloudy with a few showers, everyone got into the spirit of things and enjoyed themselves on the inflatable games. Miss Dry’s team were the eventual winners after collecting the most golden tokens in the final game of the ‘Crystal Dome’ – congratulations to them!