Popular Irish TV drama accurately reflects Ireland’s violent underworld

Louise McCarthy Parishioners at an Antrim church last Sunday were shocked by graffiti daubed on a nearby Protestant church calling for the release of a suspect in the murder of two British soldiers. Massgoers at St Joseph’s Church, Greystone Road, arrived to see the graffiti on the walls of the Presbyterian Church, just across the road.…

“Realistic targets” have been set for next year’s enrolment

Staff Reporter Catholic schools are being urged to focus on the religious formation of students in a bid to promote their distinctive ethos. Dr Rik Van Nieuwenhove, lecturer in theology at Mary Immaculate College Limerick warned: “There is a temptation in an increasingly secularist society to identify Catholic schools in terms of values which are widely…

Brothers Fionn (4) and Aidan Lockett (2) from Grangegorman, Dublin present copies of ‘Feeling the Heat', a Trócaire research paper on the impact of climate change in the developing world, to Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly TD. Photo: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

Decision by Equality Commission described as bizarre

Family of Catholic schools fear division and loss of high quality education

Bishop Denis Nulty pictured with the Poor Clare community in Graiguecullen, Co. Carlow on the occasion of the election of a new Mother Abbess, Sr Rosario.

Fr John Sullivan SJ has been made Venerable