Cathal BarryCommunity devastated by casualties
Month: July 2014
Government urged to establish Order of Malta diplomatic relations
Michael KellyThe head of the Order of Malta has said he would like the Irish Government to establish full diplomatic relations with the humanitarian organisation. The Order is a sovereign entity in international law and maintains diplomatic relations with over 100 countries and has observer status at many international organisations including the United Nations (UN).…
Thousands brave Reek climb
Courtney McGrailPilgrims gather to climb Croagh Patrick
Titanic priest is a decorated war hero
Mags GarganIt has been revealed that Fr Francis Browne SJ, best known for photographing the last images of the Titanic in 1912, was a decorated hero following World War I. A new book has outlined how the Cork-born priest served on the western front, ministering to shell-shocked soldiers and the seriously wounded for more than…
Continuing the Camino journey
In the fourth of a five-part series Greg Daly continues his journey on the Camino to Santiago
Quotes of the Week July 31
Paul Keenan“It would be so right if the commanders of all missile systems that were in the crash area on July 17 told the whole truth about what they did and saw, if they said it to everyone, to God and people!" Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Russian Orthodox Churcjh’s Synodal department for Relations between…
UN report on Ireland is comically biased
David QuinnIn demanding changes, the Human Rights Committee is exceeding its authority, writes David Quinn
The ‘alluring curse’ of addiction to heroin
Mary KennyI felt very sad about the late Peaches Geldof (pictured) when her inquest was made public last week – her death having taken place in April. It was disclosed that 79 heroin syringes were found in her home in Kent, plus a large stash of high-quality heroin. Due to her death, her baby son Phaedra…
Standing with the ‘Nazarenes’
Bravo to France for taking the initiative in offering asylum and protection to beleagured Iraqi Christians from Mosul. The French press has followed these dreadful persecutions much more closely than the mainstream press in the English-speaking world. Ironic that the French Republic, so affirmatively a secular state, has been the most responsive to afflicted…
‘I believe in the Church’
Martin O'BrienFr Des Wilson tells Martin O’Brien why he has great optimism for the future Church