Greg Daly talks to Trócaire’s Eamonn Meehan about his work leading the Irish Church’s overseas aid agency “The whole concept of charity, and Catholic social teaching, is about love,” says Trócaire’s Executive Director Eamonn Meehan, “That’s what drives us.” Originally from Clare, Eamonn went to school in Ennis before training as a primary school teacher…
Martin McGuinness had no real choice but to resign as the North’s Deputy First Minister, according to a prominent northern priest. Expressing regret about Mr McGuinness’s poor health, Fermanagh’s Fr Joe McVeigh told The Irish Catholic, “I also feel he had no real option but to resign given the entrapment he was facing from the…
‘Zero tolerance’ is key to child protection in the Irish Church and should not be confused with how priests are handled when out of ministry, the sole Irish member of Pope Francis’ child protection commission has said. Commenting on the Pope’s call to bishops on the Feast of the Holy Innocents for the Church to…
Immediate action is needed to protect families at risk of losing their homes through repossession, following comments from the Master of the High Court, leading campaigners have urged. Edmund Honohan, who has previously called on the Government to ‘nationalise’ repossessed homes and use them as social housing, said this week that thousands of repossession orders…
Activities at Belfast’s Marie Stopes clinic are “shrouded in darkness” and should be investigated, a leading pro-life campaigner has said in the aftermath of a damning report into the organisation’s English abortion centres. The report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which followed inspections at clinics in 10 locations across England, as well its call…
Greg Daly experiences Martin Scorcese’s Silence
The family of the late Munster coach Anthony Foley have been “overwhelmed” by the reaction of people to the ‘Eight for Eight’ campaign, Knock’s rector Fr Richard Gibbons has said, after the conclusion of the campaign at Knock shrine. The campaign had asked people to go to Mass for the last eight Sundays leading up…
A new place of mission and evangelisation for young people in Ireland has been officially opened in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. The Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown, formally opened Holy Family Mission at Co. Waterford’s Glencomeragh House on Friday, December 2, saying it was an honour officially to launch such a…
A House of Lords report that has recommended that questions of freedom of movement across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic has been welcomed by Derry’s Bishop Donal McKeown. “It’s certainly very encouraging for us here to discover that there are people in significant positions who are concerned about the effect that Brexit…
A truth recovery process should be established to deal with ongoing issues concerning Northern Ireland’s past, a prominent Northern priest has said. “The British government and the Dublin government have a responsibility to pursue the agreement they made and set up a truth recovery process as far as that is humanly possible at this late…