“I get on my knees and pray right at the side of the bed, no matter where I am.”

Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara, who passed away at the weekend, once said her greatest fear would be “not getting into Heaven”. The flame-haired actress, who was born in Dublin in 1920, passed away in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho on Saturday at the age of 95.  When a journalist asked the film…

Campaigners have said Pope Francis’ call for equality for the Traveller community will be used to advocate for their rights “for many years to come”. More than 300 Irish Travellers attended an audience with Pope Francis on Monday, to mark the 50th anniversary of the first ever visit by a Pontiff to a gypsy camp…

70 Irish hairdressers responded to an advertisement for volunteers

Irish missionaries working in Pakistan have said they fear the death toll will significantly rise in the country following a devastating earthquake. The 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the mountainous area on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday. “Snows have come early this year so logistically it will be a very difficult rescue and…

After 143 years of service to the people of Belfast the Sisters of Bon Secours are withdrawing from the North. The Bon Secours Sisters set up a ministry in Belfast in 1872 and lived for many years on the Falls Road, courageously facing the reality of life in Belfast, visiting the poor, nursing the sick…

Bishop Donal McKeown chats to young people who were among 150 delegates from parishes, schools and youth groups who attended the Diocesan Youth Ministry Conference in Thornhill College, Derry at the weekend, to plan the way forward for developing faith opportunities for young people at parish level. Photo: Stephen Latimer

Newry parish in Co. Down is to play host to a very new kind of parish faith mission in the run up to Christmas and to mark the new ‘Year of Mercy’. The mission will be given by some 20 international lay missionaries who are studying at the Emmanuel School of Mission in Rome. The…

The life and legacy of Edward J. Flanagan, was the topic of a public lecture given at the Summerhill College in Sligo by Thomas Lynch, historian and director of community programmes at Boystown, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Fr Flanagan was born in Leabeg, Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon in 1886 and was a student at the College of…

A parish run initiative to get more men involved in the Church has been described as “wonderful” by the local parish priest, Fr John Sinnott. Seventy men met for a full Irish breakfast, cooked by male volunteers in Johnstown Parish Hall, in Johnstown, South Dublin. The outreach initiative took inspiration from Rebuilt, the book about…