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May 6, 2011 · Father Niall O’Brien, 64, a good friend, a brave and courageous priest of unquestionable integrity died last 27th of April in Pisa, Italy, after a long struggle with illness. He was an extraordinary Columban Missionary living out his commitment to the poor in the Philippines for the past forty years. An ardent advocate of active
Dublin, Ireland. Died. 28 April 2004. (2004-04-28) (aged 64) Pisa, Italy. Occupation. Missionary priest. Niall O'Brien (2 August 1939 in Dublin, Ireland – 27 April 2004 in Pisa, Italy) was an Irish Columban missionary priest, notable for being falsely accused of and detained in the Philippines in the 1980s on charges of multiple murder.
May 2, 2003 · Published in Sunday Tribune He was educated by the Holy Ghost Fathers at Blackrock College, but it was the Columbans that Niall O'Brien arrived in 1957, to begin his journey towards ordination. He wanted little more than to be a priest: he would become a social campaigner; political philosopher and household name.
Apr 25, 2024 · Apr 25, 2024. Fr Niall O’Brien, the Irish Columban missionary who was wrongfully imprisoned in the Philippines by the Marcos regime in the 1980s, died twenty years ago on 27 th April 2004. According to his former classmate and friend, Fr Cyril Lovett, Fr Niall’s major contribution was to a theology of non-violence, spelled out in his three ...
- 'A Great War'
- The End of The Mars Dream
- Economic Disaster
- Worsening Climate Crisis
- Growing Civil Unrest
Some claim that Nostradamus predicted the rise of Adolf Hitler but did he also predicted a great war would occur in 2023. Turning to the quatrains of Nostradamus, one line particularly stands out: ‘seven months great war, people dead through evil’. If this prophecy is indeed related to our current age, there may be a faint silver lining contained i...
Tech magnate turned space entrepreneur Elon Musk hasn’t been afraid of making bold predictions about when humankind might finally set foot on Mars. In March 2022, he suggested 2029 as the year in which astronauts would make this second giant leap. But might Nostradamus be pouring cold water on such bold aspirations with his cryptic line, ‘the light...
In the aftermath of a devastating pandemic, once-unthinkable lockdowns, and the war in Ukraine, it’s hardly surprising that economies across the world have sailed into troubled waters. Many experts believe the soaring inflation, fuel costs, and general economic tumult will continue to get worsebefore they get better, and Nostradamus seems to concur...
As CO2 levels and global temperatures continue to rise, the climate crisis is sure to remain a hot-button issue in 2023. Nostradamus, writing the following quatrain, does seem to be warning of even more dark times to come: For forty years the rainbow will not be seen. For forty years it will be seen every day. The dry earth will grow more parched, ...
Will cost of living emergencies, growing anger around environmental damage, and income inequality pave the way for serious civil unrest in 2023 and beyond? Given how things have been going, it wouldn't be a stretch to believe that things may get a whole lot worse. And, as with so many other things, Nostradamus seems to have seen this coming. The Fr...
Jul 10, 2024 · 40 Years Later. Jul 10, 2024. To mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the Negros Nine and the 20th anniversary of the death of Fr Niall O’Brien, Fr Donal Hogan recalls a miscarriage of justice in the Philippines and the RTE reporter that made the Columban missionary a household name. On 3 rd of July 1984 Frs Niall O’Brien, Brian Gore ...
About the author: Niall O’Brien (August 2, 1939 – April 27, 2004). Born in Dublin, Ireland, ordained a Columban missionary priest in 1963,assigned in Negros in the 1970s where he organized a cooperative. Arrested anbd put on trial in 1983, released in 1984. He died in Pisa, Italy. About the diary: Entries are taken from Seeds of Injustice ...
