Taoiseach to open centre dedicated to Rice

A CENTRE dedicated to Edmund Rice, founder of the Christian and Presentation Brothers, is to be opened shortly by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

The centre, on the historic Mount Sion site at Barrack Street in Waterford, looks set to become one of the country’s premier ecclesiastical and heritage tourism sites.

This significant refurbishment was the first at the site since the beatification of Blessed Edmund by Pope John Paul II in 1996.