Pope Francis arrives to lead an audience with Roma, Sinti and members of the Travelling community at the Vatican on Monday. The Pontiff appeared to reference the recent tragedy at a halting site in Dublin in which ten people lost their lives when he said: “we do not want to witness any more family tragedies…

Staff reporter Pope Francis has been voted by young people as one of the most inspiring and admirable figures in the world. The Pope came second in World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Annual Survey 2015, one of the most geographically diverse surveys of millennials, just behind Nelson Mandela. The more than 1,000 respondents to the survey…

Campaigners have said Pope Francis’ call for equality for the Traveller community will be used to advocate for their rights “for many years to come”. More than 300 Irish Travellers attended an audience with Pope Francis on Monday, to mark the 50th anniversary of the first ever visit by a Pontiff to a gypsy camp…

Time for action rather than ‘talking shops’

Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara, who passed away at the weekend, once said her greatest fear would be “not getting into Heaven”. The flame-haired actress, who was born in Dublin in 1920, passed away in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho on Saturday at the age of 95.  When a journalist asked the film…

“I get on my knees and pray right at the side of the bed, no matter where I am.”

Archbishop Michael Neary has dismissed as “simplistic” claims that Ireland is experiencing a crisis of priesthood. The Archbishop of Tuam insisted that the real issue facing the Church in Ireland was a “crisis of faith”. “Many people today speak of a crisis in the priesthood. This I consider to be a rather simplistic view of…

Pictured at the Pope John Paul II awards for 90 students in the Diocese of Waterford & Lismore are pupils from Ard Scoil na Mara, Tramore – Cian Upton, Will Butler, Elizabeth McGrath, Brian Kent and Ross Upton – who received the Pope John Paul II Papal Cross awards, having been recipients of gold medals…