Crystal Swing-Showband Sensation or Tragically Traumatising?

Crystal Swing are the latest music craze to take Ireland by storm. Thanks to the influence of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook along with their YouTube videos gaining thousands of hits in the space of a few hours it makes me wonder, what is it that has caused this media frenzy?

Fr. Ted's Lenten Challenge.

So the time has come for all good Catholics out there: Lent. Some might say that a good Catholic is one that prays all the time, reads the Bible, goes to mass regularly. I certainly wouldn't consider myself to be a very good Catholic, but this is my attempt at trying.
I've decided to combine these two things to create a new challenge I like to call...Fr.Ted's Lenten Challenge!

Education & The Millennium Development Goals: Give Cynicism a Chance?

In September 2000, at the Millennium Summit in UN Headquarters in New York, 189 heads of State met to discuss the issues of poverty and deprivation in the World's poorest countries. As a result of this three day event, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were conceived.