The O’Donovan brothers’ rowing exploits in the Olympics have “really helped to put Skibbereen on the map”, according to the chair of Skibbereen’s parish pastoral council. “It’s brilliant,” Jacinta Crowley told The Irish Catholic, continuing, “the town is all done up beautiful, and the volunteers are in the process of painting the rowing club for…
The head of Social Justice Ireland has called for a rethink on Ireland’s corporate tax regime, criticising how workers often pay more tax on their income than companies do on theirs. Challenging new figures showing how between 2009 and 2014 the State collected no corporation tax from Irish companies with an income of almost €17…
The controversial term ‘fatal foetal abnormality’ is expected to be used in new formal guidelines to help health service workers deal with grieving parents, it is understood. As The Irish Catholic went to press, sources indicated that new guidelines entitled ‘Standards for Bereavement Care following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death’ would include the term which…
A senior figure in the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) has said that current high-profile tensions about the national seminary have become a stumbling block for ordinary Catholics. Anonymous allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, have led to Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin withdrawing his seminarians from Maynooth to send them to…
The Irish College in Rome is to have its numbers significantly boosted with the announcement that 15 seminarians from Saint John Vianney College (SJV) Seminary in Minnesota are to transfer to Rome for the completion of their formation studies. The Board of Trustees of the Irish College, chaired by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, approved…
The National Traditional Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine will take place on Saturday September 3. The day’s pilgrimage will commence with a Missa Cantata at 2 p.m., followed by Stations of the Cross and Benediction. All events take place in the parish church of Knock. The episcopally-appointed spiritual director and leader of the pilgrimage is Fr…
St Joseph’s Church in Carrickmacross has sustained the people and witnessed two centuries of dramatic history in the area, Bishop Liam MacDaid has said during a Mass on Sunday, August 7, to mark the 150th anniversary of the church’s consecration. Work began on the south Monaghan church in July 1861, with the gothic building, designed…
About 230 cyclists took part in a 60km cycle from Clonmel to Tramore on Sunday, August 6, to commemorate a much-loved local priest and raise money for charity. The Fr Colm O’Brien Memorial Cycle, now in its seventh year, began at St Peter and Paul’s Church in Clonmel and concluded at Tramore GAA club, where…
A jubilee Mass in St Malachy’s Dominican Church, Dundalk, celebrated by Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh to mark 800 years of the Dominican order, proved a triple celebration. Not merely did the Mass acknowledge the role of the Dominicans, who established themselves in Dundalk in 1777 from their 14th-Century base in Carlingford, in the area,…
John Costelloe, Tulla Rd, Ennis has been awarded a Bene Merenti award after over 55 years of involvement with the St Vincent de Paul society in Clare. The Ballygriffey native, who has worked for Clare County Council and in Shannon Development, has been involved at all levels of the society, serving as conference president and…