Christian Brothers

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Brothers Sean and Michael Buckley outside their Sandycove auctioneering business which is due to close shortly after over 56 years in business. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times
Going, going, gone: Buckley Galleries hosts final auction

It is a death of sorts: the closure today (July 25th) , after 56 years of weekly auctions, of Buckley Galleries in Sandycove. “We miss you more, our h(...)

Arthur Ryan, second from left, and Alma Carroll at the opening of Primark’s store in Boston in 2015, alongside Mayor Martin Walsh and Primark chief executive Paul Marchant. Photograph: Josh Reynolds
Business leaders pay tribute to ‘retailer pioneer’ Arthur Ryan

Leading business figures yesterday paid tribute to Arthur Ryan, who led Penneys-Primark from just one store on Dublin’s Mary Street to a global fashio(...)

Eight properties remain to be transferred by the Church to the State. File photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters
State reaches ‘milestones’ in securing Church assets to cover abuse redress

The Department of Education says “significant milestones” have been reached in getting religious congregations to hand over lands and properties to he(...)

The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report in Dublin in 2009. Photograph: AP Photo/Peter Morrison
‘Shocking, shocking:’ Justice Sean Ryan on the abuses of children uncovered in his report

On May 20th, 2009, the Commission into Child Abuse published its shattering 2,600-page report. It investigated 215 residential institutions for chi(...)

One of the things that stuck Mr Justice Seán Ryan’s mind during the years when the commission heard evidence was the extraordinary number of people held in institutions over those decades in Ireland. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times
'Anybody awkward was put somewhere. Ireland was closed, defensive, xenophobic'

Preparing to publish his investigation into Ireland’s religious-run residential institutions 10 years ago this month, Mr Justice Seán Ryan knew that h(...)

The congregations have yet to pay in full compensation deals reached in 2002 and 2009. Photograph: Alan Betson
Religious congregations yet to fully honour compensation deals

Eighteen religious congregations who ran orphanages, reformatories and industrial schools investigated by the Ryan Commission have yet to fully honour(...)

Ciara Geraghty: I was under the impression that I had come to terms with my father not being here, long before he died. And then I found that list.. Photograph: Doreen Kilfeather
I see Dad’s name on an old book launch guest list and the grief feels brand new, box fresh
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  • May 3, 2019, 05:25

I found the guest list for my last book launch. It fell out of a folder and floated to the ground, sort of quiet and apologetic, like the last leaf fr(...)

Cairn Homes applied to build 377 apartments and eight houses on a three-hectare north Dublin site, that was previously owned by the Christian Brothers.
Cairn approved for 380-apartment development on Griffith Avenue

Cairn Homes has been cleared to build a 385-home apartment development, including blocks up to eight storeys high, on Griffith Avenue, Marino, Dublin (...)

Toilet in classroom at Charleville CBS Primary, Co Cork, where part of the roof recently fell in.
School principal refuses to return pupils to ‘dire’ classroom conditions

A primary school principal says he will not allow his staff and pupils return to “dire” classroom conditions after the Easter holidays unless the Depa(...)

William Power stands in front of his portrait which was taken as part of the ‘People Like Us’ exhibition which opened on Thursday. Photograph: James Forde
New exhibition challenges how people see drug users

A new photographic exhibition, opened in Dublin on Thursday, aims to challenge how people see drug users. Those at the launch included William Power (...)

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