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.

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…

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

The oldest Irish person in history has died aged 113. Co. Clare native Kathleen Snavely passed away at a nursing home in New York on Monday. In an interview, she recalled arriving in the US with just a few dollars to her name. “I remember when I had nothing,” she said. “I just thank God…

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

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…

A case being taken against RTÉ by a former Catholic archbishop who had alleged that he was defamed by the broadcaster has been settled at the High Court. Richard Burke claims that material used in RTÉ’s Mission to Prey programme broadcast in May 2011 wrongly branded him as a paedophile. RTÉ had denied defamation. However,…

Staff Reporter An unlikely row has broken out between pop star Katy Perry, the Archbishop of Los Angeles and a group of elderly nuns. The singer reportedly wanted to buy the Los Feliz villa that served as the convent for the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles. However, according to reports,…

Teresa White, Becca Monaghan, Paula Freney and Catharina Ascough at the annual All Ireland Rally for Life which took place in Dublin on Saturday and according to organisers attracted a crowd of 30,000 people.