A Derry priest spent a night in hospital after he fell off a roof at his parochial house while trying to make repairs. Fr Paddy O’Kane, who serves in the Holy Family parish in Derry’s Ballymagroarty, was repairing a hole in a flat roof beside his parochial house at the weekend when he slipped and…

Staff Reporter A Kilkenny priest is keeping a document that connects actor George Clooney to Ireland under lock and key until the film star comes to visit this summer. Fr Nicholas Flavin confirmed to The Irish Catholic this week that he was in possession of the baptismal record of the Oscar winner’s great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Clooney, who…

Archbishop Eamon Martin said renewal of faith in Ireland will be “nourished” by religious congregations

Lay faith-based missionary groups are coming together to form a new representative body, to pool resources and lobby for the needs of lay missionaries at home and abroad. Lay Mission Union Ireland (LMUI) is still in the planning stages, but the origins of the new body dates back to a meeting in 2013, when lay…