Murroe Official Community Website

John Lee, the ‘man they couldn’t hang’,
was sentenced to death in 1885 for murdering his employer.
Three times they tried to hang him and three times
the [Read More]

I like the story
of the female prisoner
who observed,
“ When you are in prison,
it is especially important
to try and live in the present moment.
It’s so easy [Read More]

Nietzsche, a Russian philosopher claims that
‘memory is the enemy of wonder’.
 
Wonder abides nowhere else
but in the present.
This is why, unless you are a child,
wonder depends [Read More]

 
I was listening to the Living Word on RTE Radio 1 recently. It comes on just before two in the morning so I only vaguely [Read More]

All communities have a ‘medium of exchange’,
‘a common currency’, a culture
that binds people together and tries to ensure that
they are engaged in the same enterprise.
 
A [Read More]