Good Friday at 25 As we mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, we face new challenges but ones to which solutions can and should be found, writes Bishop Donal McKeown Like many people, I remember very well where I was when I heard about the Good Friday Agreement. Unlike most of my colleagues…
Good Friday at 25 As the deadline loomed, the sky wept thousands of raindrops, which fell like tears for thousands of victims writes, former BBC Political Correspondent Martina Purdy David Trimble did not live long enough to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. But shortly before he died, the former Ulster Unionist…
A Maltese Catholic priest who served as a chaplain in a London hospital received £10,000 (€11,396) in a settlement with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service after he alleged he was fired for expressing the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Fr Patrick Pullicino, who is also a medical doctor, sued the London NHS Trust for harassment,…
Good Friday at 25 The Noble laureate’s faith sustained him in the toughest of times, writes Chai Brady Irish history must remember the peace-making behemoth and founder of the SDLP in the North, John Hume, as well as his wife Pat, because marking the Good Friday Agreement without mentioning them would not be accurate, according…
Good Friday at 25 The View There has been much coverage in the last weeks of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. I have not wanted to watch much of it. My abiding memory of the signing of the agreement is that it induced in me a sense of great sorrow and distress…
Two weeks ago, there was a significant celebration in the National Concert Hall as March 30 marked the 100th birthday of the doyenne of our musicians, Sheila Larchet-Cuthbert. Invited guests, including yours truly, gathered in the John Field Room for chat and refreshments before moving into the auditorium where the NSO had just completed its…
Good Friday at 25 Sr Liz Smyth’s Catholic education helped give her anger at the Troubles a productive outlet, Ruadhán Jones hears “We thought it was normal,” says Dominican Sr Liz Smyth, who grew up on the Falls Road in Belfast during the height of the Troubles. What was normal? Burned out buses on the…
Notebook Last Monday, April 10, marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday agreement. This agreement finally brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence and conflict. I was always deeply struck by the timing of when this historic peace agreement was reached – on the day the prince of peace…
‘Blessed are the peacemakers’. This Beatitude seemed to underpin the coverage of the Good Friday Agreement anniversary last week. It hasn’t been 25 years of perfect peace but it has been infinitely better than the Troubles that went before. The event was marked in a prayerful way by the Service for the 25th Anniversary of…
Irish parishioners have been urged to show greater support for Christians in the Holy Land as they mark the holiest week in the year in Jerusalem. It comes as Church leaders in the Holy Land have warned of increased fears that Christians are being marginalised after a series of attacks on Christian holy sites in…
Chai Brady
Nuala O’Loan
Ruadhán Jones
Brendan O’Regan