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Biodiversity and Chemical Spraying
In this sobering video, Maria Young of Green Spaces for Health explains that the world has entered it's sixth major extinction event, unique, since it is caused by humans. The chemical spraying of crops has a devastating effect on pollination and while it isn't the...
Challenging Plans to Culvert the River Bride in Cork
The River Bride is a tributary of the River Lee on which the beautiful city of Cork is built. The River Bride flows through the area of Blackpool, traditionally a working class area that was, at one time, heavily polluted by industry. The Bride has been re-routed to...
Rewilding and Ecosystems
The common definition of rewilding is to ‘restore (an area of land) to its natural uncultivated state (used especially with reference to the reintroduction of species of wild animal that have been driven out or exterminated). It’s a relatively new word, but is...
Five Days of Action for Biodiversity – Facebook Challenge
To mark the Season of Creation, we are once again hosting the Days of Action for Biodiversity Awareness. The last one was a huge success and a lot of fun. This campaign is a joint effort in collaboration with the Society of African Missions, Elders for Earth, SHEP...
Blessing of the Graves 2021
The Corona-19 pandemic has forced so much change upon us over the last 18 months, not least of which is the gathering in person of our loved ones to mark the milestones of grief. One such milestone is the OLA Biennial Remembrance day that traditionally takes place in...
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary
On August 15, we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, a day recognising the Virgin Mary’s completion of her early life and a celebration that she “was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven” (Munificentissimus Deus, Pope Pius XII, 1950). As we reflect on...
Ireland’s Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking in 2020
The Trafficking in Persons or TIP Report is the world’s most comprehensive report on governmental anti-trafficking efforts. It is published by the U.S. State Department every year and ranks each country based on their anti-trafficking efforts. Ireland has been...
Human Trafficking Defined and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Trafficking in Persons or TIP Report is the world’s most comprehensive report on governmental anti-trafficking efforts. It is published by the U.S. State Department every year and ranks each country based on their anti-trafficking efforts. This year the...
OLA Justice Officer Interviewed by Social Justice Ireland
Our Justice Desk recently collaborated with the Presentations Sisters' Justice Office in Ireland and Edmund Rice International to make a civil society submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Ireland which takes place November 2021. "To mark United...
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