Daniel O’Donnell’s final show before he takes an extended break will take place in St Mary’s Church Kincasslagh on December 21. The proceeds will be donated to support the church and local school, Scoil Mhuire, Belcruit. Patricia Swan, Personal Assistant and Tour Manager for the singer told The Irish Catholic this concert “has been something…
Seventeen early medieval manuscripts linked to Irish monastic missionaries have returned to Ireland for the first time in over a millennium, as part of a landmark exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland. The exhibition, Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe, opened May 30 at the museum’s Kildare Street…
Newry Cathedral Parish is facing more than a million debt, which could potentially result in the historical churches’ closure. Calling for the parishioners’ support to overcome the £1.4 million debt, volunteers from the Parish Pastoral Council and Finance Committee spoke during Pentecost across the parish, launching a ‘Parish Renewal Campaign’. “The call is not only…
Msgr La Flynn, Prior at Lough Derg expressed his “deep sorrow” to the victims, following the conclusion of the court case which sentenced a former Lough Derg worker who sexually harassed women to a four-year jail term. Tomas Gallagher asked the victims to help him “repair washing machines”, deceiving them before sexually harassing. He pleaded…
Ireland will be nationally re-consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday June 22 at Knock Shrine, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore has announced in a pastoral letter. The re-consecration marks the 350th anniversary of the first apparition of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary Alacoque. Ireland was the first country…
A Donegal Councillor is calling for a new bank holiday in honour of St Colmcille to be established in Ireland. Cllr Jimmy Kavanagh presented the idea to Donegal County Council in a recent council meeting. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Cllr Kavanagh said Ireland is “almost three days below the EU average” in the number…
The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Matt Talbot, the Dublin man whose journey with alcoholism and life of prayer and penance have made him a symbol of hope for those battling addiction, took place from June 6-8. The first ceremony took place in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Sean McDermott St.…
More than 10,000 pilgrims from across Ireland gathered at the National Marian Shrine in Knock recently to mark the 40th anniversary of the All Ireland Rosary Rally. The rally, rooted in the legacy of Fr Patrick Peyton, whose motto was, “The family that prays together stays together,” was designed as a celebration of prayer and…
I was covering the peace process, in the days before the Good Friday Agreement was forged, there was a lot of talk about a ‘Pan-Nationalist Front’. It was a unionist term for an alliance forged by the Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, SDLP leader John Hume, and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to pursue a peace settlement. It’s…
The prior of the Augustinian community in Galway and parish priest in St Augustine’s Church on Middle Street, Galway, Fr Anthony Finn (also known as Fr Tony) met Robert Prevost (Pope Leo XIV) on numerous occasions while Prior General of the Augustinian Order (2001 to 2013) visiting Ireland’s Augustinian communities (including Galway) and Fr Finn…
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