Dr Stacy Trasancos, our Faculty of Philosophy's visiting speaker for October, will give her lecture "Never Trust Atoms: They Messed Up Everything" on October 14th, at 5:00pm, Sacred Scripture Room, Loftus Halls on campus. Free public lecture, all are welcome. #publiclecture #philosophy

Archbishop Eamon Martin, Chancellor of SPPU, today conferred an honorary Doctorate in Theology on Sr Orla Treacy in recognition of her contribution to social justice and women’s educational rights across the world. #sppu #spcm #orlatreacy #honorarydoctorate

Professor Michael A. Conway, SPPU, will be the keynote speaker at the AMRI Annual Conference on Sustaining Hope: Leadership Now. He will speak under the title, “The Thing with Feathers: Hope in a Time of Transition,” Wednesday, the 1st October 2025, Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.

🛎️ Reminder of the Annual Monsignor Patrick J Corish lecture. Please visit www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-annual... to register your place.

On Oct 13th at @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social BC Professor Stephen J. Pope will deliver the Irish Theological Quarterly Lecture: "Can Forgiving Ever Be A Moral Mistake?Considerations from Christian Ethics".

🛎️ Reminder of the upcoming Irish Theological Quarterly Lecture. Please email [email protected] to register your place.

Tobias Winright, Professor of Moral Theology, SPPU, published "Just Policing" in the October 2025 issue of Commonweal magazine (pp. 36-38). Read more below: www.commonwealmagazine.org/just-policin...

Bishop Michael Duignan will launch two new publications from St Patrick’s Pontifical University faculty members on Monday, 6th October, in Renehan Hall, SPPU. To register your place, please email [email protected]

Tobias Winright, Professor of Moral Theology, SPPU, published "Let There Be No More Alcatrazes," US Catholic (Sept 23, 2025): Read the full article below: uscatholic.org/articles/202...

✨ Meet our 2025/26 student ambassador team! Ready and waiting to put their best foot forward! From L-R: Rowan Egan, Oisín Raymond, Brandon Lowe, Louise Molloy, Córa Somers, Rachel Harries, Collette Sherlock, Christopher Lynn#stpatricks #maynooth #sppu #student #ambassadors

Professor Michael A. Conway will be the keynote speaker at a Conference on school identity and ethos for Principals and Deputy Principals of CEIST schools. He will speak under the title, “Beyond Cain and Abel: Catholic School Identity,” Thursday, the 25th September 2025, Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone

Undergraduate orientation got underway today with the class of 2028! Our new students got to talk to staff, make new friends and sample what our campus has to offer. A very warm welcome to all of our new students 😄 #stpatricks #sppu #maynooth

Thanks to everyone who stopped by today at the second day of Higher Options! Make sure to pop by stand 206 tomorrow if you are there! #stpatricks #maynooth #higheroptions

🤗A great first day at Higher Options! Make sure to pop by our stand tomorrow and Friday to talk to us. #stpatricks #maynooth #higheroptions

We were delighted to welcome our Postgraduate students yesterday! 👋 Our new postgraduate students were treated to a College Chapel tour by Rev Dr John-Paul Sheridan, before registering for the new academic year. #sppu #stpatricks #maynooth #postgraduate

Culture Night is this Friday, 19 Sept! Drop in, no booking needed: 📚 Russell Library (16:30–18:30) ⛪ College Chapel, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth (16:30–18:30) 🔬 Science & Ecclesiology Museum (16:00–20:00) + bilingual storytelling! culturenight.ie/even... #CultureNight #OícheChultúir

👋 Fáilte roimh gach duine le haghaidh an téarma nua! 👋A warm welcome to our students both new and returning for the beginning of the new academic year. We look forward to welcoming some new faces this week at orientation as well as seeing our existing students! #stpatricks #maynooth

Bishop Michael Duignan will launch two new publications from St Patrick’s Pontifical University faculty members on Monday, 6th October, in Renehan Hall, SPPU. To register your place, please email [email protected]

SPPU Faculty, Dr Jessie Rogers and Fr Peter O'Kane, are participating in a Liturgy Conference this Saturday, 20th, in Carlow College. Dr Rogers is one of the keynote speakers while Fr O'Kane will lead two workshops. More info can be found at www.kandle.ie/LiturgyConfe...

CAO Available Places facility 2025 is now open. 📜 CAO Available Places provides a list of courses that are still open for any qualified applicant to apply for.

Join us at the Irish Theological Quarterly Lecture with Prof Stephen J Pope, Boston College, who will deliver the lecture, entitled "Can Forgiving Ever Be A Moral Mistake? Considerations from Christian Ethics". To register your place, please email [email protected]. #bostoncollege #theology

Join us at the Annual Monsignor Patrick J Corish Lecture 2025 where Prof David I. Kertzer, Brown University, will give the lecture on "Eugenio Pacelli and the Vatican’s Irish Plan to Save Baptized Jews (1938-1939)". Register here - www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-annual...

Tobias Winright, Professor of Moral Theology, authored an article "Take a treeish point of view on this year's Season of Creation" for the National Catholic Reporter. 🌳In it he highlights some of the yew trees on campus. www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

Professor Michael A. Conway, Prof. in Faith & Culture, will be speaking under the title “Ut unum sint” and Synodality at the Extended Leadership Meeting of the Sisters of Saint Louis next Wednesday, 10 September 2025, Drumalis, Larne, Co. Antrim.

Professor Tobias Winright, Prof. of Moral Theology, SPPU, was quoted in a National Catholic Reporter article about US Catholic Bishops' responses to gun violence and school shootings. Read the full article here - www.ncronline.org/news/most-us...

CAO Available Places facility 2025 is now open. 📜 CAO Available Places provides a list of courses that are still open for any qualified applicant to apply for.

Dr. Joshua Furnal, SPPU, was a contributor at the recent University of Passau Fellows meeting. Read more here - sppu.ie/news-events/... #stpatricks #passau

Prof Tobias Winright, Professor of Moral Theology at SPPU will be on Spirit Radio at 11.45 am on Morning with Kieran to discuss the latest mass shooting in the US where children were targeted while praying in Church.

Prof. Michael A. Conway, SPPU, Professor in Faith and Culture, will lead a workshop for the Synodal Pathway of the Catholic Church in Ireland this coming Monday, the 1st of September 2025, First Divinity Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

On August 30th, Tarsus Scripture School will host the first annual Dromantine Scripture Day entitled “The Bible in the 21st Century,” a one-day event is aimed at affirming the importance of Scripture in the Church today. Further details: www.tarsusscriptureschool.ie/our-courses/dromantine-2025

​SPPU Faculty, Dr Joshua Furnal and Prof Tobias Winright, delivered papers at the 2025 Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology held at Trinity College Dublin on 20-23rd August.

Wishing all Leaving Cert students the best of luck this year as you await your examination results. Remember there are many options out there, feel free to talk to our team. Ruth @ [email protected] Rachel @ [email protected]

Tobias Winright, Professor of Moral Theology, SPPU, gives an interesting take on Ireland's tradition of Neutrality in America Magazine.  Read the full article here - www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

We are taking applications for new modules in Ethical Leadership & Autonomy and Paternalism. 🔗Click here to apply - forms.office.com/e/BEZC6i71Zj Applications close 8th September. Have a query? Contact [email protected] / 01 708 4778.

☀️ Looking forward to welcoming new and existing students back to campus soon!

Rev Dr Neil O’Donoghue, Director of Liturgical Programmes at SPPU was interviewed by the Irish Catholic today on the new edition of the Lectionary, used at mass, the first revision in nearly half a century. sppu.ie/news-events/... #irishcatholic #spcm #sppu

🚨Applications close tomorrow. Apply now at sppu.ie/courses Have a query? Get in touch with us sppu.ie/about/contac... #stpatricks #maynooth #pastoral #liturgy #theology #higher #diploma

We are taking applications for new modules in Ethical Leadership & Autonomy and Paternalism. 🔗Click here to apply - forms.office.com/e/BEZC6i71Zj Applications close 8th September. Have a query? Contact [email protected] / 01 708 4778.

​Congratulations to St Patrick’s Alum, Ger Brennan, who has been appointed as new Dublin GAA Senior Football Manager. Ger graduated from St Patrick's with a BA in Theology & Arts (2007) and a Master's in Theology (2010). We are very proud of Ger and wish him the very best of luck in his new role.

MU Library is hiring! Postgrad students at Maynooth or St Patrick’s — join our Library Facilities & Events Team. Apply by Thurs, 21 Aug bit.ly/FacilitiesAnd... Or scan the QR code in the image #MUlibrary #StudentJobs #LibraryTeam #Hiring

Applications close soon! Head to sppu.ie/pastoral-lit... for more info. Have a query? Contact us at +353 (0)1 708 4778 or email: [email protected]. #stpatricks #maynooth #pastoral #liturgy #higher #diploma

Head to sppu.ie/hdip-in-theological-studies to find out more and to apply for our blended learning Higher Diploma in Theological Studies. Have a query? Contact us at +353 (0)1 708 3391 or email: [email protected]. #stpatricks #maynooth #theology #higherdiploma

On July 29, Fr. Neil Xavier O’Donoghue presented a paper entitled, “From Cross to Paschal Mystery: A search for the center of the liturgy ” at the Congress of Societas Liturgica. Fr. Neil is pictured along with Emmanuel Ibitoye and Pauline Byrne, two doctoral students at SPPU

Tobias Winright, Professor of Moral Theology, SPPU, published an article "Why This US Scholar Moved to Ireland" in The Tablet today. Read here: www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/why-th...

Professor Salvador Ryan, SPPU, spoke on the Moncrieff Show, Newstalk, this week where he delivered an insightful explanation of the origins of the Sacred Heart picture, which traditionally most Irish households grew up with. Listen to the full segment: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Some of our SPPU students pictured below during their Mission Ignite volunteering project in South Africa. They made a few new friends along the way! 🐘 #stpatricks #sppu #maynooth #missionignite

Congratulations to Andrew Parrish on successfully defending his dissertation today, with no amendments or corrections required. We are grateful to Prof Christopher Insole of Durham University who was the external examiner. Every good fortune for the future, Dr Andrew!

On the 24-25th July, Rev Dr Neil Xavier O'Donoghue, SPPU, took part in a meeting with representatives from the Bishops’ Conferences of Australia, Ireland, New Zealand at the Columba Centre, Maynooth, to discuss the progress of the Joint Lectionary Project. www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/07/25/l...

Head to sppu.ie/pastoral-liturgy for an introduction to Pastoral Liturgy and to apply for our Higher Diploma and Diploma in Pastoral Liturgy. Have a query? Contact us at +353 (0)1 708 4778 or email: [email protected]. #stpatricks #maynooth #pastoral #liturgy #higher #diploma

Head to sppu.ie/hdip-in-theological-studies to find out more and to apply for our blended learning Higher Diploma in Theological Studies. Have a query? Contact us at +353 (0)1 708 3391 or email: [email protected]. #stpatricks #maynooth #theology #higherdiploma