Despite musical success The Priests ‘are the opposite of the Rolling Stones’, writes Chai Brady   Even while rubbing shoulders with musicians as critically acclaimed as Rihanna, Tom Jones and more, The Priests look at it is as an opportunity towards an “encounter” and even a possibility to evangelise celebrities. Breaking the Guinness Book of…

The sisters of Kylemore Abbey are a hardworking group of nuns who welcome tens of thousands of eager visitors each year to their home in the heart of Connemara. The nuns are famous for their delicious home-baking and the wholesome food in the abbey restaurant and tea rooms. Built as a breath-taking castle in 1868…

Gratitude to the stories that formed him drives one of England’s leading Catholic writers, writes Greg Daly   Liverpool, that most Irish of English cities, is still a place with Catholicism in its bones, and a natural home even now for the Liverpool-born writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce. “I have been other places,” he says, having studied…

100 years on.. Catholic voters had to wait a fortnight to learn the results of the 1918 election, writes Gabriel Doherty Following several months of feverish military and political activity, punctuated by a series of authentically earth-shattering events, The Irish Catholic, in its number for the week ending Saturday, December 21, 1918, registered a sudden…

The Camino de Santiago was a very different experience in the Middle Ages, writes Greg Daly   A biography of Red Hugh O’Donnell, written a few years after the Gaelic lord’s death in 1602, made much of how the earl had visited Breóghan’s Tower in A Coruña on his arrival in Spain in the aftermath of…

A new Remembrance Garden has been opened in a Limerick school and was blessed by Bishop Brendan Leahy who attended its opening. Coinciding with Grandparents Day, Athea National School opened the Remembrance Garden last week as a place for pupils to play and relax, as well as being an area of reflection for all. A…

100 years on… This paper felt Europe’s best hope after the Great War lay with the US president, writes Gabriel Doherty   For several weeks prior to the week ending Saturday December 14, 1918 the pages of The Irish Catholic had been dominated by preparations for the forthcoming general election. With the ballots for same…

The dramatic marriage between Mary and Joseph was a ground-breaking moment in history, writes Colm Fitzpatrick   When we think of an image of Mary and Joseph together, the first picture that usually comes to mind is the nativity scene in the stable or perhaps the flight to Egypt from King Herod, but often forgotten…