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TANEY EMPLOYMENT CENTRE WE WANT JOBS PERMANENT – TEMPORARY PART-TIME – FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL – SEMI-SKILLED OFFICE – CARING – DRIVING OUTDOOR – ANYTHING! This is a Diocesan project open since October 2009. We now have some 150 people registered with us. Some we have already placed in jobs but we urgently need to hear about new opportunities. OUR CHARGES ARE MINIMAL. THINK HOW YOU CAN HELP Contact: Andrew (01) 298 4705 E-mail: [email protected] ChurCh of Ireland unIted dIoCeses CHURCH REVIEW of dublIn and GlendalouGh ISSN 0790-0384 Church Review is published monthly and usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2011 AD. From the Editor POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION ARCHBISHOP John Neill retires on 31st January. The Episcopal Electoral College meets in Christ Church Cathedral on 2nd February to appoint his successor. By the Copies by post are available from: time you read this, it is probable that a new Archbishop will have been appointed but, Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, at the time of writing, there is no way of knowing who that might be. The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. Archbishop Neill’s letter in Church Review was generally the first page that readers turned to E: [email protected] in the magazine. It was always a thoughtful commentary on what was happening in the Diocese. T: 086 026 5522. Often it provided food for further thought. The letter is a valuable way of communicating with the The cost is the subscription and Diocese and also provides a record for future historians of the issues that concern us at a point appropriate postage. in time. We look forward to reading the thoughts of the new Archbishop when he is appointed. COPY DEADLIINE The next Archbishop is likely to be a bishop already and he (for it will almost certainly be a he) will bring knowledge and experience gained in other dioceses to the job in Dublin. He may be surprised All editorial material MUST be with the how much work and pressure is involved in this job, partly because of the size of the Diocese and Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, partly because Dublin is the capital city and centre of government, diplomacy and the media. no matter what day of the week. Material Visiting ambassadors and dignitaries will call to pay their respects. The media will expect should be sent by Email or Word interviews and comments on a wide variety of subjects. Tabloids wait to pounce on any off-the- attachment. cuff remark and even the Church of Ireland Gazette enjoys stirring a bit of controversy. As patron of many large primary schools, the Archbishop will need to set aside a great deal of VIIEWS EXPRESSED time for dealing with educational issues. And there will be the confirmations and parish visitations, the endless committees and boards Views expressed in the Church Review are of management, the thorny theological issues to consider, Anglican Communion meetings and those of the contributor and are not Primates meetings to attend, Diocesan and General Synods to address. There is also the weight necessarily those of the Editor or Church of responsibility that comes with leadership in such a prominent position. And a letter to write Review Committee. each month to readers of the Church Review! A former Archbishop, Walton Empey, remarked that he had thought he was busy in his previous EDIITOR two bishoprics but he had not known what busy really meant until he came to Dublin. It is a wonder that anyone is willing to take on such an exhausting job. The Revd. Nigel Waugh, There are positive aspects to the position however. The new Archbishop will not have to work The Rectory, Delgany, alone. He will find a good support team in place. Energetic archdeacons and dean are able to take Greystones, Co. Wicklow. on some of the workload and a press officer is ready to help with the media. He will have his own T: 01-287 4515. (part-time) secretary and a small but efficient diocesan office close to his residence. T: 086 1028888. A new Archbishop will set out his own goals and the priorities for his ministry. Some issues he E: [email protected] will be forced to address. The financial downturn will be a feature of his term in office. Indeed it will probably last for his whole time in Dublin and Glendalough. EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT It is already putting a strain on resources. It will affect budgets and pensions and will place a curb on any ambitious Diocesan plans. Noeleen Hogan The Abortion debate, which will be re-ignited after the next general election, is a difficult issue. No matter what stance the Archbishop takes, somebody will be unhappy ADVERTIISIING The ministry of women, which has caused turmoil in parts of the Church of England, has not been an issue here. In this Diocese, there is a wide acceptance of women’s ministry and we look Advertising details and prices are available with some bemusement at the trickle of English bishops heading for Rome. The traffic here in this by emailing [email protected] or by regard has been in the other direction with many of our clergy and ordinands having begun life as phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 Roman Catholics. But the debate about the role of gay clergy, bishops and lay people, which has not really been 5522. Copy should be sent to an issue here as yet, is likely to be more prominent in the next few years. This debate, and the [email protected] or by post to issues of authority within the Anglican Communion associated with it, are likely to need his Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, attention. Ours is a conservative church. Only one parish in the whole Church of Ireland is on The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by record as being a ‘welcome and open congregation’ to those who are LGBT according to 15th of the month. Changing Attitude Ireland. And that parish is not in this diocese! This may mean that we are not welcoming and open or, perhaps more likely, that we are unwilling to rock the boat at parish level CHIIEF REPORTER by debating an uncomfortable issue. An archbishop with strong views on either side of this debate is likely to attract some flak. Orla Ryan. M: 087-2356472. Archbishop Neill had a wonderful rapport with those from both evangelical and high church E: [email protected] traditions with neither feeling their views were denigrated. The practice and ceremony of diocesan occasions has become more ‘high church’ during his time in office but none have had any reason to feel excluded. It is unlikely that the new Archbishop will find difficulties in this area either. Single copies are available from: Heading up this Diocese is a tough job but the new Archbishop will have the prayers and • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. support of the clergy and people. May he have the health and energy to lead us for many years! • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines. COVER STORY: Parishioner ronald rumball and nicola Pierpoint, representing nichols PRIINTIING funeral directors and daughter of the Ven david Pierpoint, pictured at the launch of the friends of st ann's society in the Mansion house, dawson Church Review is Printed in Ireland by street, dublin. DCG Publications Ireland T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. E: [email protected] ChurCh review 3 adare and Its ChurChes Patrick Comerford Oh, sweet Adare! oh, lovely vale! Oh, soft retreat of sylvan splendour! Nor summer sun, nor morning gale, E’er hailed a scene more softly tender. How shall I tell the thousand charms Within thy verdant bosom dwelling, Where, lulled in Nature’s fost’ring arms, Soft peace abides and joy excelling. – Gerald Griffin. I tasted the thousand charms of Adare a few weeks ago on my way back to Dublin from Killarney. Adare, which many regard as one of thatched cottages line the street of Ireland’s prettiest villages, is a heritage town adare, giving it an “old-world” charm. with a population of about 2,600 people, 16 km from Limerick City. Adare has inherited architectural wealth of great beauty, and is a major tourist destination, with three well-known hotels – the Adare Manor, the Dunraven Arms and Fitzgerald’s Woodlands House Hotel – and eight restaurants. Many tours of the south-west stop in the village, which is also a popular wedding and conference venue. Adare is also fast becoming a golf destination with two 18-hole courses – the Adare Golf Club, which hosted the Irish Open in 2007 and 2008, and the Adare some of the old cottages have been Manor Golf Club. turned into craft shops. The popularity of Adare is due in large part ford known as Ardshanbally ( Ard an tSeanbhaile to the village’s picture-postcard main street, with its thatched cottages and picturesque – “high ground of the old town”). houses and streets, designed and purpose-built The present town, which stands about half-a- for the Dunraven estate and decorating the mile west on the other side of the river, has entrance to Adare Manor. been at the heart of many rebellions, wars and To take a stroll though Adare’s streets is to be conquests, leaving behind a legacy of historical brought back in time and through history to a monuments. In the 19th century, the Earls of place where the mix of centuries is part of Dunraven laid plans for the existing streets and everyday life.