Since I have little experience of academia, I cannot say whether Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor is acting judiciously in proposing to appoint female-only chairs to universities in Ireland. Some say that a 50-50 gender distribution needs an imaginative push with affirmative action, since women aren’t, apparently, being appointed in sufficient numbers to professorships. Others say…
The widow of former Munster rugby coach Anthony Foley has said her faith has grown stronger since her husband’s death, and has helped her coped with his loss. Speaking on RTÉ radio, Olive Foley said: “I have a deep faith, and it’s probably even strengthened over the last couple of years and I do believe…
The View Martin Mansergh Commemoration of the ending of the First World War on Sunday, November 11, both here in Ireland and at the international ceremony in France where world leaders gathered, was conducted with great dignity and solemnity. The sacrifices of those who fought were acknowledged, but with the message that such…
An Irish football team have made their country proud after winning gold in an international sporting event. The Irish Homeless Street Leagues, which has run numerous street leagues around Ireland since 2003, lifted the Fundacion Telmex Telcel Trophy after beating Romania 8-3 in their final match. The 16th edition of the Homeless World Cup took…
An Irish priest has praised his friend and colleague who was killed in South Sudan during a brutal attack last week. Fr Victor-Luke Odhiambo SJ was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday, November 15, when unknown assailants entered the Jesuit residence in Comboni. The assailants fled when other Jesuits in the residence, roused…
A priest was attacked by a Hindu mob in northern India, and then arrested by police after Hindus accused him of causing the disturbance. Fr Vineet Vincent Pereira was conducting a prayer service in Ghohana town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh when right-wing Hindus attacked him. The priest lives in a house with…
A parish priest has said he is “disappointed” that a local council have prioritised removing a statue of the Virgin Mary on land close to a planned goldmine, and that there should be a focus on the environmental impact of the development. The eight-foot (2.4m) high statue is located in Greencastle on land where Canadian…
Catholic leaders applauded a presidential order requiring education ministry officials to return to churches all of the schools that religious denominations surrendered to the government five decades ago. President Uhuru Kenyatta said he had given government officials one week for the restoration of the schools’ ownership to churches, to return the land they occupy and…
Christians are free to disagree about the EU, writes David Quinn Ireland is rather smug just now about the whole Brexit situation. We believe that Britain has landed itself in a big mess (and it has) and we seem to be thoroughly enjoying its discomfort. I’m not sure we should be though, and there…
Scotland’s last Catholic queen is hotly tipped to be the role that sees Ireland’s Saoirse Ronan [pictured] win her first Academy Award. Although criticised by historians, Josie Rourke’s film Mary Queen of Scots is already winning rave reviews for Ms Ronan and Margot Robbie’s performances as the Catholic queen and her English nemesis, Elizabeth I.…
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