Pioneer Total Abstinence Association

Thinking of taking the pledge for lent?

Non-Pioneers are invited to take the Short-Term Pledge for the duration of Lent.

Conditions for enrolment are:

1. To abstain from all intoxicating drink
2. To recite the Prayer twice daily
3. To wear the Pioneer emblem

At its meeting on Saturday 20th February 2010, the Jesuit Policy for Safeguarding Children was adopted as Pioneer Policy in its dealings with Children with immediate effect. Full training and implementation procedures will have attention at the next Board meeting scheduled for the 29th May 2010. In the meantime all applications (North and South) from leaders seeking vetting should be routed through the CEO'S office.

Minister Backs Pioneers’ 2010 Lenten Call: Drink Less Alcohol, Research Shows 147% Increase in Hospital Discharges with Alcohol-related Liver Disease

Tomorrow,  Ash Wednesday (17 February 2010), the Pioneers launch their 2010 Lenten campaign and will call on people to drink less alcohol during Lent and to think about their drinking habits.     

Temperance Sunday Call from Pioneers : Drink Less Alcohol this Lent

On Temperance Sunday (14 February 2010) the Pioneers will launch their 2010 Lenten campaign  and will call on people to think about their relationship with drink and to drink less alcohol during Lent.

On Temperance Sunday, 14th February 2010, a mass will be celebrated by Fr. Bernard McGuckian, SJ, Central Spiritual Director of the Pioneer Association, in St. Francis Xavier's Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. There will be a presentation ceremony of Pioneer Pins and Certificates to those pioneers who qualify.

Mayo man Muredach Tuffy recently returned from South Africa where he was  quite literally building homes for and links with members of South Africa’s community.

Fighting the scourges of war, poverty and the plague, the villagers of Oberammergau vowed to stage a passion play every ten years if God spared the small populace from the misery and death that swept through Europe in the seventeenth century.

The Réadóirí Talent Competition is co-ordinated by the national leisure committee and brings the nations budding talent to the stage and produces a very high standard of competition.

Pioneering  & the Community

Over 150 people attended a very successful “Pioneering and the Community” event which the Eglish Pioneer Association, Northern Ireland ran last month.

Chief Executive’s Christmas Message 2009

Christmas is a time of birth, wonder, sharing and prayer.