Dr. Martin Stynes

Retired primary school principal and senior research associate with Dublin City University EQI School of Policy and Practice. All views are my own.

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

Many thanks to the ever excellent @KennysBookshop for sourcing & delivering into Ireland what may well be the best addition to my home library, the #IgnatiusCatholicStudyBible with commentaries from the brilliant #DrScottHahn & learned colleagues. A wonderfully impressive volume

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

@MilHistNow Hard to beat Guy Dempsey’s excellent collection of first hand accounts of the battle - from the always reliable @penswordbooks and @Frontline_Books

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

The #marmalade making season has begun with the arrival of a box of beautiful @OrganicRoldan #SevilleOranges Nom nom 😋 🍊 Soooo fresh and squeezey 😀

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

It’s St Martin’s Day!!! A happy and peaceful day to all Martins, to all 1962 Martins (and Martinas) especially and to all Dominicans. @irishdominicans @Dominican_Order

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

First purchase from @navalmilitary press and @penswordbooks Looking forward to some great reading before upcoming trips. Top quality books and service. Thanks to @RoyalMail @parcelforce @Postvox for safe & speedy delivery 📦. Highly impressed. @MilHistNow

[Sryan Bruen Photography @sryanbruenphoto]

I can’t believe it, I got first place in the Coastal Landscape category of the Love Your Coast competition for my shot of Balbriggan Lighthouse.

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

@FulhamFC Great days … and more to come. The best news today!

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

È impossibile descrivere la bellezza di Siena sotto la luna toscana, ma ecco un tentativo.

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

@frpaddybyrne Our faith is that all life comes from God and will return to Him. The kingdom of heaven belongs to His children (Matthew 19:14) and surely to those murdered through abortion. The Lord will never forget His own (Isaiah 49:15. May the poor innocents ask God’s forgiveness on us all.

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

Before he was Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost had heard about 16-year-old Donal Walsh who was dying of cancer in the west of Ireland. He was so impressed by Donal's deep that he wrote him a letter offering to make him an honorary Augustinian. And two days before he died, Donal was sworn in.
This is the story of a teenager whose courage and conviction inspired Ireland, and also a future Pope.

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

A happy #GoodFriday today. An amazing #HarryClarke #StainedGlassWindow for an amazing day ✝️.

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

A brilliant afternoon at #DCUGraduation. Delighted to be there with new @DCUAlumni and especially @ConorReale Phenomenal! 😀👍

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

Congratulations to newly minted Dr @ConorReale on the successful defence of his Doctoral thesis - a phenomenological exploration of teachers civic identity. A truly excellent achievement Conor and phenomenally well done 😀 @JoeOHaraDCU @EQI_DCU @OireachtasNews 👍

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

Powerful words to resound through all eternity at the baptism of grandson Donnacha Kevin today, ‘I claim your soul for Christ our saviour by the sign of His cross’. ❤️

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

@MartinaFitz1 Yes, of course Martina! How could I forget? My mum did the same novena praying for a safe delivery and promising that the child would be named after the saint. I’ve kept her St Martin statue. Happy memories … and we can go again on 11th with our other Martin 😀

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

Thanks to Pope John XXIII, my mother and St Martin de Porres on 3rd November. A joyous day to be a Martin. 😀

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

1 Chronicles 29:11-13: Greatness, power, splendor, glory, and majesty are yours, LORD, because everything in heaven and on earth is yours 🙏

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

September: From #thehappiestschoolinireland to #thehappiestretirementinireland Nothing else to say … 🏝️☀️😀

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

Appealing for support and to spread the word for our great friends from @KilleaghGAA - the Motherway family and young Rory. A lovely young chap. In need of our help and working so hard himself in Rehab ❤️ So brave. Please donate and share. Thank you.

[Killeagh GAA @KilleaghGAA]

(1) Rory Motherway, 19-year-old engineering student and talented hurler and footballer with Killeagh GAA, was in a serious car accident in May that left him with paraplegia, and now his family needs our help to make their home accessible for him. https://t.co/qilpOh3FM4

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

A degenerate & insane provocation to world Christianity and heritage at #Paris2024 #Olympics #openingceremony Ultimately, a feeble mockery and nothing more. Non nobis Domine - Not unto us O Lord … but to thy name give glory. Psalm 115:1 👍 https://t.co/qmB8ZNIu8l via @YouTube