Category: Irish News

Wind farm plans loom over iconic Cork chapel

A local community in Gougane Barra has taken issue with the proposed nearby building of Cork’s biggest wind turbines, close to the picturesque St Finbarr’s Oratory. An Bord Pleanála gave the controversial project a green light in February after it had been refused planning permission by Cork County Council because of the negative impact the…

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Augustinians to leave two Dublin parishes

The Augustinian order have made the “painful” decision to withdraw friars from Rivermount Parish in Finglas and Meath Street parish in the Liberties. The decision came following the order’s chapter last week, as it seeks to downsize due to a decline in the number of friars. Prior provincial Fr Tony Egan OSA told this paper…

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Rural parishes hope for summer boost after Covid

The Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions devastated rural communities, leaving some towns lying empty and derelict, but parishes now say they are hopeful of a summer boost having “weathered the storm”. Fr John Joe Duffy of Creeslough, Co. Donegal, told The Irish Catholic “it’s tearing the heart out of rural communities to see them lying empty…

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