Courtney McGrailArchbishop Diarmuid Martin has described the level of homelessness in Dublin as “shameful”. Speaking at Crosscare’s Year 1 Report launch last week, Dr Martin said the “vulnerable and marginalised” often fall “prey to the very systems which were there to provide them with protection and support”, and condemned “services which are below standards and which…
Month: July 2014
WMI appoints new director
Mags GarganWorld Missions Ireland (The Work of the Pontifical Mission Societies) has appointed Fr Maurice Hogan as its new National Director. Fr Hogan is a member of the Missionary Society of St Columban (Columban Fathers). Ordained in 1965, he has served as a missionary in Japan and more recently in Hong Kong before returning to…
Failed by the system
Again the State has been found wanting in caring for children, writes Shane Dunphy
Irish priest decries bomb attack on Nigerian parish
Cathal BarryCommunity devastated by casualties
A jolly fine game
Mary KennyIs golf a genuine sport? A veteran sports writer, Simon Barnes, has suggested that it is not, because "sport should involve some risk". Golf is way too comfortable to be a real sport, he suggests. It's no more a sport than croquet – a mere pastime. I've always had mixed feelings about golf,…
The Price of Power
Peter CostelloFor those still absorbed in the current of Irish politics Pat Leahy’s book about the inner tensions of the present coalition will make an absorbing read, as riveting as his account of Fianna Fail in Government as the economy collapsed. Not exactly escapist reading, but necessary perhaps.
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).…
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…
The Broken Road
Patrick Leigh Fermor is the justly famous author of some of the best travel books of the last century. This book is the final part, published posthumously, that rounds out his recreation of walking across Europe in the 1930s, begun in The Time of Gifts and The Way Through the Woods. His destination was supposed…