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We visit prisoners, offering compassion to them and their families and encourage fairer treatment in prisons.

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Advocating for the human rights of Travellers and helping to improve their situation in the criminal justice system.

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The Irish Chaplaincy is the only charity supporting Irish prisoners across the whole of England and Wales. As a result of the research we’ve introduced, many prisons have rethought their approach to Travellers. We believe in a fairer more just society.

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January 15, 2021

Little Green Shoots

New life can appear in surprising places, even in something which I thought was totally dead. I’ve somehow made it through the first couple of weeks back at work after…
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January 7, 2021 in Blog, Faith, General

January – The month to begin again

I must be one of the very few people who likes the month of January.  At least I haven’t met anyone else who likes it as much as I do.…
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January 4, 2021 in Blog, Faith

Love is Born Again

The Australian poet Michael Leunig quotes an old saying at the start of his book ‘A Common Prayer’: ‘Love is like bread, it has to be made fresh every day.’…
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December 21, 2020 in Blog, COVID-19, Faith

The Song Remains the Same

In this year in which so much was unfamiliar it is comforting that some Advent traditions have remained more or less the same. (more…)
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December 16, 2020 in Blog, Faith, General

Christmas and the coming of our hope

In Dennis O’Driscoll’s humorous poem, Non-Stop Christmas, “Christmas is always coming.  There are only ever so many days still left”.   Well, the shopping and the frenetic activity which have characterised…
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