Photo was taken yesterday at Col√°iste Choilm, Ballincollig, Co.Cork (Irl)

John Spillane played to a packed audience last night. His latest album ‘Songs we learned in school’ has achieved double platinum sales. All the old songs we learned in school are on this CD and its selling like hot cakes! Students from Gaeil Col√°iste Choilm were part of the backing track for this album and the concert last night was John’s way of saying thanks.

Thought on Friday – March – 13/03/2009

‘Where there is no love, put love and you will find love.’ ~St. John Of The Cross

This lovely quote can be inverted by saying: ‘Where there is no hope, put hope and you will find hope.’ A religion teacher in a secondary school wrote the words ‘Faith’, ‘Hope’ and ‘Love’ on a blackboard and asked his students which one they felt was most important. Perhaps not surprisingly, faith came in a weak third. What was surprising was that love didn’t fare much better and hope won by a landslide. In the world we live in today there is an air of hopelessness that doesn’t seem to go away. Society today is very much problem focussed. Good news gets squeezed out. Bad news is attractive and can at times be more interesting. No wonder hope can also get squeezed out. We need it, we must nurture it, encourage it and most importantly live it.