Matt Letourneau In late 2024 it was announced that the Cistercians were to leave Mount Mellaray and the future of the monastery is uncertain. Earlier in the summer we visited Melleray and spoke to the then Abbot and we decided to repeat the feature now as a tribute to the monks and the historic monastery.…
Faith has been a positive anchor for Dublin airport’s CEO during stressful times, Chai Brady hears For as long as he can remember, the CEO of DAA (previously called Dublin Airport Authority) has said his Faith has been a part of his life and has helped throughout his business career. In an exclusive and…
Christianity is suddenly becoming a respectable intellectual choice again. It will take some time for this news to reach Ireland, maybe even another couple of decades, but next door in England, and in the US and Canada, we are seeing some movement by some leading intellectuals, and other people of influence towards Christianity. Some have…
Fr Paul Clayton-Lea Despite the turbulence and pressure surrounding the Church in recent decades the vast majority of Irish Catholic parents and many non-Catholic ones too, remain strongly attached to the choice of Catholic schools for their children. This confidence and determination of today’s young parents to defend and maintain their bond with Catholic schools…
These days, due to change in the release of state papers at the British National Archives at Kew outside London and at the Northern Ireland Records Office in Belfast, the former fifty years closure periods for files has been reduced to 30 years, so that the Irish side of the story can be told in…
There were so many programmes of interest on over the Christmas period –too many repeats as usual, but a few that are worthy of mention. So This is Christmas (RTÉ One) was certainly something different. It was an unobtrusive fly on the wall style film, a series of vignettes of various people preparing for…
As we have just emerged from the turn-of-year celebrations, I thought it fitting to end on a more positive note that’s in keeping with the season. We live in a time where not even the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, will mention the indisputable reason for the season. Contained on the official Christmas…
Even though I didn’t experience it, early 1990s Ireland seemed to a time of great cultural and behavioural flux. Poring over documents in the archives I got an unmistakable sense that this was one of the most defining periods in Ireland in terms of the island’s widespread disavowal of life through a Christian lens and…
I don’t think young people truly grasp the controversy and hysteria that Sinn Fein provoked in certain parts of the UK and indeed Ireland. During its most acute stage, the voices of the leaders of the Sinn Fein party were censored in both Ireland and the UK as a result of a broadcasting ban and…
A joint initiative of the Irish embassy and members of various Irish communities in Rome, the ‘Ireland in Rome Map’ will act as a guide for Irish pilgrims to Rome during the Jubilee year and includes historical and religious sites associated with Ireland and significant people in Irish history. The map details 12 sites across…
Chai Brady
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