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Clonfert, Co. Galway, is the resting place of one of the most adventurous of Irish monks: St Brendan the Navigator. Stories of his seafaring inspired not only his contemporaries in Ireland, but later generations across medieval Europe too. Even in our time his story was a major influence on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and…

  1500 years from the death of St Brigid, the legacy of her faith in Jesus and beautiful attitude of mercy is being celebrated and remembered in the cathedral that carries her name in Kildare town. Dean Isobel Jackson talks with Ray Hayden about Brigid’s life story and inspiring leadership in founding her monastery in…

‘You shall love the Lord your God… and your neighbour as yourself’(Luke 10:27)  Archbishop John McDowell, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, and Archbishop Eamon Martin, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18th-25th January) with a wide-ranging conversation on this year’s theme, ‘Go and do likewise’. In the conversation…

In episode 9 of The Confession Box, Brandon Scott and editor Michael Kelly reflect on the intertwined life and faith of Shane MacGowan, society’s urge to start talking about Christmas earlier and earlier every year and some parting words from the editor of The Irish Catholic as he prepares to step down from his post…