Personal Profile “I just feel I’m here to help bring people closer to God in the wider sense, and that is my work.” Marie Evans hails from Castleblaney in Co. Monaghan but has now settled, among the trees with her dog Millie, in the remote townland of Lurganboy, Co. Leitrim. She was once a…
Any person with no fixed address will have found it difficult to register to vote for the upcoming election, even though people who are homeless – or are in prison – can technically vote. In order to vote from prison, which has been legal in Ireland since 2006, a prisoner must apply to be included…
Róise McGagh asks: At the heart of it all, why are people lonely? Why do we get lonely? A simple question with a very complex answer. Is making an effort to interact with more people in a day the way to cure it? It is estimated that around 400,000 people in Ireland suffer from loneliness.…
World Visions Ireland has welcomed the first conviction of a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)case in Ireland. On Monday, a married couple were sentenced to prison. The father, aged 37 received five and a half years and the mother, aged 27 received four years and nine months. Fíona O’Malley from the Christian organisation World Visions Ireland…
Personal Profile Sometimes it is easy to forget just how lucky we are. In Ireland, we are ranked as one of the wealthiest countries in Europe. People largely have access to healthcare, free water, some – be it expensive – housing and plenty of food. Niall O’Meara had the opportunity to realise just how lucky…
‘Is the air in your home affecting your health?,’ asks Róise McGagh ‘Go out and get a bit of fresh air’, we were told, by parents, teachers and friends. Whether we are feeling under the weather mentally or physically. But what is so bad about the indoors? It is a recent enough biome in terms…
After 283 years, the last of the Penal Laws in Ireland has been repealed by proposals to restore power-sharing that was backed by Stormont parties on January 10. The proposals put forward by Tánaiste Simon Coveney and Northern Secretary Julian Smith will repeal the Administration of Justice Act (Irish Language Act) 1737. Recognition It will…
Fr Martin Magill says the return of power sharing is the new beginning he had hoped for. “Listening to people and politicians there’s no doubt about it, it has changed the atmosphere and lifted the mood, the fact that we have people dedicated to key issues.” said Magill, the parish priest of St John’s on…
The political party Aontú is set to have at least 20 candidates in the general election on February 8, according to Meath TD and party leader Peadar Tóibín. He says they hope to obtain 4% of the vote, which would mean about 40,000 first preferences – twice the amount needed for the party to begin…
Capuchian friar Fr Bryan Shorthall has called for the next Government to prioritise tackling crime after a bag of human body parts was found near his church in his parish in Coolock, Dublin on Monday night. The bag was left near the church in Priorswood, outside a row of houses at Moatview Gardens and Moatview…