Diocesan News
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.
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.
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.
With the help of a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award, Magheralin, outside Lurgan, Co. Down, has created a beautiful garden in its church grounds.
Among the news Bishop Paul Colton brought back from the Lambeth Conference was that of the inauguration of the Anglican Communion Forest.
Excellence in religious education is recognised by the TRC Award which is presented each year to a Stranmillis University College student at who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to creativity and innovation in this subject area.
Our environment has been an inspiration for inventiveness among Irish Christians from the earliest days of the Celtic Church with previous generations working in harmony with their natural environment creatively and productively.
The Church of Ireland’s Board of Education for Northern Ireland has written to all controlled schools at the end of term, to encourage and thank them for their steadfast work in difficult circumstances.
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.