Senator Sharon Keogan has said she will continue to contribute to the debate around surrogacy, after a “deeply personal attack” during an April 21 Oireachtas committee meeting. Senator Keogan was referred to as being a “bigot”, “crude”, “cold” and that she should “check her Christian values” after raising concerns about the possibility of Ireland legalising…

Sr André of the Daughters of Charity, born Lucile Randon, has become the oldest person on Earth, aged 118. The blind sister lives at a nursing home in Toulon along the Mediterranean coast. She begins each day with breakfast, a morning Mass, and has a glass of wine every day. Sr André was born into…

Staff reporter Irish women’s international rugby player Claire McLaughlin (30) has said her Christian faith is really important, saying prayers before each match. “I’m a Christian,” Ms McLaughlin told The Sunday Independent, adding that “my faith has been really important to me over the past number of years.” Antrim-born, Ms McLaughlin was first capped for…

Catholic primary and secondary school bodies are confident they can manage the expected influx of Ukrainian students, as schools return after Easter break. About one third of all refugees are aged between five to 17-years-old, meaning of the 21,000 that arrived before the Easter break, 6,300 were of school-going age. “It’s very hard to tell…

Staff reporter A leading Professor of Psychiatry has said that the Church cannot be blamed for the largest institutions in Ireland used by communities to lock people away from society. Brendan Kelly of Trinity College Dublin has just published a new book, In Search of Madness: A Psychiatrist’s Travels Through the History of Mental Illness.…