Fr David Collins OFM from Knocknaheeney pictured following his ordination in St Francis Church, Cork with Bishop John Buckley, his parents Eileen and Neil Collins, and family members: Martin Collins, Pathama Collins, Niall Collins, Nita Collins, Gemma Kerrigan and Brian Collins. Photo: Tony O'Connell

Members of the Sligo Parishes Cluster, led by Canon Niall Ahern of Strandhill, taking part in a procession to the ancient church of Killaspugbrone, which has close associations with St Patrick, organised as part of the Festival of Faith last week.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, pictured with the seminary council at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth during a brief visit to Ireland last week, when he spent Saturday afternoon with the seminary community at the invitation of College President, Msgr Hugh Connolly, who described it as “an uplifting…

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Second annual Festival of Faith for Sligo Parishes Cluster

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Parish Priest, Fr Gerard McCloskey serving ice cream at St Nicholas's church, Ardglass, Co. Down as part of an ‘Ice cream Sunday’ initiative to give children of the parish a sense of belonging and to encourage them to participate in Sunday Mass. Photo: Gerard Smyth

Small, rural schools “under a shadow of doubt about their very existence”.