Border communities are fearful of a return to tensions in the region if Britain goes ahead with a threat to break a treaty agreeing a frictionless frontier, the country’s newest bishop has warned. Bishop of Kilmore Martin Hayes told The Irish Catholic he was aware that priests and parishioners in border parishes were nervous that…
Assisted suicide and euthanasia have been described as “an assault on most vulnerable in our society” by leading theologian Prof. Eamonn Conway. It comes on the heels of People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny’s launch of a Dying with Dignity Bill, which seeks to legalise assisted suicide. The bill is currently before the Dáil, with…
The Department of Health has confirmed that since the pandemic hit Ireland there has been just one outbreak in the Republic connected with a church, but the religious denomination was not specified. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre “does not collect data on attendance at church or religious denomination for individual cases of Covid-19”, according to…
The community of Carrick-on-suir, Co. Tipperary, were “thrilled” as local Sam Bennett became the first Irishman to win a major jersey at the Tour de France since 1989. The 29-year-old beat off a challenge from world champion Mads Pedersen to secure victory on the final stage of the Tour de France, having already claimed the…
A controversial Irish priest who has been in a dispute with the Vatican for several years over his views on priesthood and the Eucharist has rejected a plan from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that would have restored him to public ministry. Redemptorist Fr Tony Flannery has been forbidden to exercise public ministry…
