Judges for our Ireland competition

William Scholes, Assistant Editor and Features Editor of the Irish News. He is also Commissioning Editor for the newspaper's 'Faith Matters' column. His areas of interest are religion and motoring.

Dr Toni Pyke PhD, the Justice, Peace and Ecology co-ordinator with the Association of Leaders of Missionary and Religious of Ireland (AMRI). She has worked at the Archdiocese of Boston and the US Catholic Bishops Conference in Washington DC in the Office of the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees. She has lived and worked on issues of international development and development education in Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Ireland. She has lectured at Maynooth University and the University of South Africa.

Fr Paul Glynn, Columban missionary who has worked on mission in the Philippines building peace on the Island of Mindanao, where decades of inter-ethnic fighting has cost tens of thousands of lives and displaced two million people. He has also worked as regional director in the Philippines before he returned to Ireland in 2023. He is currently working with the Dublin City Interfaith Forum, promoting dialogue between faiths, as well as with refugees.

Patsy McGarry, worked as Religious Affairs correspondent for The Irish Times for 25 years. He previously worked for Independent Newspapers, the Irish Press group, Magill magazine and RTÉ. In 2024 his memoirs, 'Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish, Catholic, Agnostic Correspondent' was published by Irish Academic Press.

Fr Jason Antiquera, Columban missionary-artist from Negros Occidental in the Philippines. He was ordained in 2015. His Art Ministry in Korea began in 2018 as a new way of engaging in mission with the local church via art retreats, public exhibitions of paintings and drawings, talks and presentations on art as well as publications such as art meditation workbooks.

Assisted by Fr Cyril Lovett, former editor of the Far East magazine, Sr Ann Gray, assistant editor, and Sarah Mac Donald, current editor.