“The world of today still yearns for the Good News of Jesus Christ.”

Archbishop Eamon Martin shows his pallium to his mother, Catherine, after his investiture with the pallium by papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh. Archbishop Eamon later took to social media to say his mother had given him some tips on how to keep it clean. “Mama gives me washing instructions for…

“We hope for some kind of reasonable leadership within the Orange Order”

Fr John Carroll, parish priest of Ferns, blesses the boats at Ferrycarrig, Co. Wexford before the annual regatta organised annually in the South East.  

Nerves are setting in for the administrator of Carlow Cathedral, as he prepares for a parachute jump to raise money for the parish fund. Fr John Cummins and parishioners Mark Carpenter, Marie Therese Byrne and Jo Brecknell, are making a tandem skydive at Clonbullogue Airfield in Co. Offaly on July 18. “I have never done…

A senior politician has defended the right of RTÉ to broadcast the Angelus as a “moment of reflection”. Speaking in the Dáil, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin insisted that it was not possible to “excise out of existence Christian beliefs and the need for reflection”. “I would have believed that what now stands for the…

“The minimum wage has to move towards minimum living wages level”

During a visit to Knock Shrine the Connaught rugby team dropped in to meet the team at the HUB youth ministry centre, as they opened up for the summer season.