Former Green Party leader and minister, Éamon Ryan, has hailed Pope Leo’s commitment to tackling climate change, having attended a conference with him near Rome last month. The former politician attended the Raising Hope Conference in Castel Gandolfo and had the opportunity to see Pope Leo at the landmark event marking the tenth anniversary of…
On Morning Ireland, RTÉ’s Paul Murphy discussed the Prime Time investigation into DJ Carey’s elaborate fraud, which involved forged medical reports and a false cancer diagnosis used to solicit money from friends and acquaintances. At the centre of the deception was a visit to a Kilkenny faith-healing ministry. In 2019, Mr Carey attended a deliverance…
It was early in the morning, when Sister Stanislaus Kennedy — Sr Stan to the nation — was called home. Also early that same morning, Louise Bayliss of the Society of St Vincent de Paul spoke on national radio about the hardship gripping single-parent families as winter closes in. She described how energy poverty is…
It’s quite an achievement for a book to become a best-seller without any mainstream book reviews, and with little visibility in the bookshops. But Eoin Lenihan’s Vandalising Ireland reached the top of the best-seller list in non-fiction last weekend, sold almost entirely through Amazon (and published by Western Front, which specialises in a Christian worldview).…
A new Irish-language news service run by the Chinese Communist Party needs to be closely monitored Senator Rónán Mullen has said. CGTN Gaeilge operates as a Facebook page that provides links to articles written in Irish on the broadcaster’s website. “It proves that China has almost limitless resources in its efforts to bring its point…
A bereavement course is being held this month in Ballina, Co. Mayo to provide understanding and support for those facing loss. The programme, organised by Killala Diocese is hosted by Monica Morley, Director of the Knock Shrine Family Centre and takes place every Tuesday from November 4-25 at The Newman Institute. “I think in Ireland…
The Order of Malta launched their 2025 Christmas Appeal campaign at Government Buildings. The appeal, in support of the Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem, was officially launched by An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin on October 31. “The Holy Family Hospital stands as a living symbol of hope and peace,” John Wright, Hospitaller of the Order of…
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) has said that the government needs to do more to tackle fuel poverty among vulnerable groups such as single parents. With annual household energy bills set to rise by €321 according to a recent report, SVP said that households at risk of poverty – particularly those with…
Mary ‘May’ McGee died last week at the age of 81. She earned a significant place in Irish social and legal history in 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled that the decision whether or not to use contraception was a private matter between husband and wife and the State had no right to interfere with…
Sr Stanislaus ‘Stan’ Kennedy, the Kerry born nun who founded Focus Ireland and transformed the nation’s response to homelessness, passed away on November 3, 2025. She was 86. Her passing came, fittingly, on the Feast of All Souls, a day set aside to remember the dead and to place our mourning in the light of…
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