Pro-life campaigners have welcomed today’s Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll on abortion and says the findings are “a devastating blow to the Government’s referendum proposal”. In the poll, 47% of respondents say they intend to vote Yes and 28% say they will vote No, while 20% of respondents say they are undecided as to how…
The man hailed as the ‘King’ of country and Irish music was “gifted by God” to entertain people the funeral Mass of ‘Big Tom’ McBride has heard. Fr Leo Creelman told the thousands of mourners that the legendary singer was above all “a loving father, grandfather, uncle, brother, neighbour and friend”. He said that the…
The referendum on the Eighth Amendment is proposing “a wide-ranging right to abortion”, a group of 100 lawyers have said. The Constitution as it stands respects the right to life of mothers, and “protects the right to life of the unborn only to the extent that such protection is consistent with the right to…
A leading cardinal has said the Church in Ireland must be prepared to consider closing hundreds of churches to concentrate resources on building strong faith communities. Speaking in Dungarvan on Monday, April 16, on ‘What the Irish Church could learn from the recent history of the Church in Holland’, Utrecht’s Cardinal Willem Eijk said that…
The Referendum Commission has refused to answer queries about a senior member of a company assisting with their referendum information campaign, who tweeted that bishops were “hypocritical old eunuchs”. Dylan Cotter, the Executive Creative Director of BBDO Dublin, linked an article about a pastoral message Bishop Kevin Doran had sent to parishioners, which stated that if abortion was…
