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Trocaire was founded in 1958 by the Sisters of Mercy as Sancta Maria College to train women of the order. In 1965 it admitted laywomen and in 1972 enrolled male students. In 1967 the college was renamed Trocaire College. [3] The word Trócaire means Mercy in the Irish language. This is an homage to the religious order which founded the college ...
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Pádraig Rice (born 1990) is an Irish Social Democrats politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since the 2024 general election. [1] [2] Beginning adult life as an LGBTQ political activist, Rice became a member of Cork City Council when he was elected at the 2024 local elections for the Cork City South Central area, becoming the first Social Democrat ...
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Trócaire (Irish pronunciation: [ˈt̪ˠɾˠoːkəɾʲə], meaning "compassion") [2] is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Trócaire is a member of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation and its subregion Caritas Europa as well as of the Catholic NGO network CIDSE and the Irish NGO network ...
A number of incidents of violence have occurred. According to a June 2017 Reuters report, citing a data journalism website, a total of "28 Indians – 24 of them Muslims – have been killed and 124 injured since 2010 in cow-related violence". [2] The frequency and severity of cow-related violence have been described as "unprecedented". [2]
Palmer Freeman Luckey (born September 19, 1992 [2]) is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry.
Toomer's father soon abandoned his wife and his young son, returning to Georgia seeking to obtain a portion of his late second wife's estate. Nina divorced him and took back her maiden name of Pinchback; she and her son returned to live with her parents in Washington D.C. Angered by her husband's abandonment, Nina's father insisted that they use another name for her son and started calling him ...