On Friday, 27th June, the College embarked on its annual ‘Brother Kerrigan Walk.’ The walk this year was especially important for two reasons. Firstly, it is the 30th anniversary of Brother Kerrigan’s death. He was shot and killed by rebels in Sierra Leone in April, 1995. Brother Kerrigan was a Christian Brother, and a former headmaster at this school. This walk became a College tradition as a way of marking his death, and of raising funds to help with the projects that the College supports in Sierra Leone. The money raised has most recently been used for a construction of a well in Mabureh, which was begun last month. Previously the people of Mabureh had no access to clean water. Pictured here are sixth form students from our annual Sierra Leone Immersion trip, paying their respects at the grave of Brother Kerrigan.

This brings in the second reason why this year’s Brother Kerrigan walk is especially important: this is the Church’s ‘Year of Jubilee,’ in which the late Pope Francis called on us to be ‘Pilgrims of Hope.’ Our Brother Kerrigan walk fulfills this call perfectly by calling to mind and adding to the mission of faith which Brother Kerrigan represented. Through our little pilgrimage we have sought to bring hope into the lives of people in Sierra Leone. As a symbol of this, our college Year of Jubilee banner was transported along the length of the walk – it is pictured here at different locations between Leasowe and Seacombe.