Homelessness Supplement 2019 Support from Cork Simon can transform lives, Greg Daly learns Becoming homeless and having to rely on emergency accommodation in his home city seven years ago was a desperate experience for Garry, a native of Cork City. “Some weeks you might get a bed three nights out of seven so you…
Homelessness Supplement 2019 While progress is being made on the homelessness crisis, much more needs to be done, Greg Daly reports Just over four years ago, Ireland seemed to reach a watershed moment in its attitude to homelessness, as the death of Jonathan Corrie just metres away from Leinster House shocked the nation. Despite…
Ignoring the role of faith in the fight for Irish freedom misrepresents the history of the struggle, a leading historical adviser to the Oireachtas has warned. As politicians met this week for a historic joint sitting to mark the centenary of the meeting of the first Dáil, UCC historian Gabriel Doherty has insisted that the…
More variety in education should allow Ireland’s Church-owned schools to be truly Catholic, Killaloe’s Bishop Fintan Monahan has insisted. While demand for non-denominational schools is low outside Dublin, it is growing, Bishop Monahan said, explaining that “it is in everyone’s interest that this demand would be catered for with a greater number of non-denominational schools”.…
Muslim religious objections may pose an unforeseen difficulty for Government abortion plans, writes Greg Daly “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience,” Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch tells his daughter in Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a powerful statement, and one worth bearing in mind…
Political efforts to make serious but non-fatal foetal conditions grounds for abortion need to be resisted, a spokesperson for Doctors for Life has said. Commenting against a background of claims that the board of Dublin’s Coombe Hospital refused a woman an abortion despite two consultants having certified that her child had a fatal foetal abnormality,…
Ireland’s reliance on Muslim doctors in hospitals around the country may derail Government plans to roll out a national abortion service, a leading obstetrician has said. Large numbers of non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) working in maternity units outside Dublin are Muslims from abroad, according to Dr Trevor Hayes of Kilkenny’s St Luke’s Hospital, who says…
Hundreds of Filipinos from all across Ireland gathered in Dublin last week for the annual Santo Niño procession, with over 400 attending Mass in St Joseph’s Church on the city’s Berkeley Road afterwards. “It’s a very big Filipino celebration,” Fr Martin McDonald OFM told The Irish Catholic, adding that this celebration of the Holy Infant…
“Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice,” declared the @GKCdaily Twitter account just last week, causing me to wonder whether the English author GK Chesterton ever said that. Sure, it sounds like something he would have said, but it also seems far too handy a quote for what some are dubbing ‘Veganuary’, and…
Knock Shrine has reported an increase in pilgrim numbers over the past year, boosted in part by the historic visit of Pope Francis. Some 45,000 tickets to see the Pontiff at the Co. Mayo Marian shrine were snapped up in just four hours. And while disappointment was expressed that inclement weather affected numbers at the…