Month: July 2014

Dear Editor, Sarah Carey’s article, ‘Wild exaggerations piled on Tuam story’ (IC 12/6/14) links nicely with David Quinn’s statement in the issue of June ’26: ’There is a willingness to think the worst about Catholic Ireland.” Sarah starts well by pointing out the exaggerations in the reporting of the Tuam story although she implies that…

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Dear Editor, The logic with which Fr Fergus Ryan explained the three-part structure of the ‘proper prayers’ in the Roman Missal in The Irish Catholic of June 26 is admirable. However, those of us who are used to the natural rhythm of the English vernacular (i.e. the language of the ‘home-born slave’), find it difficult…

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by J. Anthony Gaughan Former Minister for Education Martin McGuinness once described Canon Patrick Marron as formidable, and so he is. This is clear from Fr Marron’s recollections of his life-long service in the Diocese of Clogher. Born in Carrickmacross in 1932, Marron was educated at the local Patrician Brothers’ school and later in St…

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John Quinn will already be a familiar figure to many readers, from both his days with RTÉ, but also his previous publications including the popular Goodnight Ballivor, I’ll Sleep in Trim. This new book is a collection of encounters with well known figures around the country in very different areas of life. They were asked…

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by Dervla Murphy Dervla Murphy’s account of a walk down Grafton Street would be worth reading. Since the 1960s, when she famously cycled full tilt from Lismore to India, she has been writing about her life and journeys, and has been justly acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest travel writers. On a Shoestring to…

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Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has appointed Msgr Paul Callan as the new Moderator of the Dublin Diocesan Curia. Msgr Callan replaces Co. Clare native, Msgr Lorcan O’ Brian who has been appointed as Administrator to Donnybrook parish.  Mgsr O’ Brien was the first person to serve as Moderator in Dublin and Archbishop Martin praised him for overseeing…

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If the Presbyterian Church in Ireland wants to make history by electing a woman Moderator any time soon, one person likely to be under consideration is Rev. Dr Lesley Carroll, the dynamic and respected minister of Fortwilliam & Macrory Church on the Antrim Road in north Belfast. However, Dr Carroll’s chances of assuming her Church’s…

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