Breda O'BrienBreda O’Brien analyses the apparent ‘deep-rooted bias’ of the ‘yes’ campaign
Month: November 2015
Meeting the new face of Trócaire
Courtney McGrailMaura Garrihy (Youth Ministry Director, Galway diocese) and Siobhán Bradley (Youth Ministry Director, Tuam archdiocese) were among nine Irish delegates who travelled to Kenya on a Trócaire mission trip last week to meet the family, including Daisy (pictured), who will be the focus of the charity’s 2016 Lenten campaign.
End of an era
Greg DalyGreg Daly finds out about ambitious plans to mark the closure of a beloved historical school
Faith in the Family
Bairbre CahillOur daughter Deirbhile started university in Dublin this year and was home last week for a few days during her Reading Week. She lives out near DCU but takes the bus into the city now and again. Over the weekend she said to me: “In Dublin, it’s great, almost every single person getting off the…
Celebrating the feast of St Andrew
Erin FoxAdvent will be here soon and the first Sunday of Advent will be followed by the feast day of St Andrew on Monday, November 30. Although he is most well known for being patron saint of Scotland, St Andrew is also patron saint of Russia, Romania and Barbados. As well as being patron saint of…
Sport holds up a mirror to society
Mags GarganMags Gargan reports from a recent conference examining ethics in sport and its effects on young people
Scientists scoff at religion while presenting laughable theories
Dear Editor, For many Christians the name Richard Dawkins has become akin to an agent of Satan. However, as I viewed the professor chatting to Gay Byrne the other night I listened to the reasonable arguments of an open-minded man who didn’t attempt to dance on other people’s beliefs. His bottom line seemed to be…
Don’t know how Neeson can support both abortion and children’s charity
Dear Editor, Actor Liam Neeson’s film career is thriving, so one must conclude that his voice-over endorsement of the Graham Linehan pro-abortion video reflects his personal position on the Eighth Amendment debate (David Quinn, IC 29/10/2015). One wonders how he can square this stance with his position as ‘celebrity supporter’ of UNICEF whose motto is…
Faith schools tend to perform better
Dear Editor, I noticed recently that the best results in the UK’s GCSE or whatever it is called now were achieved in Northern Ireland. I suspect that the majority of schools in the North are what might be called ‘faith’ schools. That in turn suggests that, regardless of the practice of faith of any kind,…
A feisty reporter’s book corrects for the Hollywood bias of Spotlight
A new film on the sex abuse crisis fails to tell the bigger story, writes Phil Lawler