The Fossa Climate Action Group is welcoming scientific and spiritual perspectives to their November 30 event titled ‘The Web of Life: How do we care for our common home?’. The event hopes to address growing concern for the warming climate’s effect on Co. Kerry’s landscapes. Dr Brendan O’Keeffe, a Kerry-based geographer and social scientist, will…
Category: Irish News
Mass of the Bells celebrates Drogheda’s faith and Irish history
The Mass of the Bells will be broadcast live from St Peter’s Church, Drogheda, on Sunday, November 23, marking a major cultural and spiritual celebration of the town’s history and its contribution to Irish Catholic life. Composed by Michael Holohan, the Mass brings together music, memory and place, drawing deeply on Drogheda’s religious heritage. The…
President Connolly attends annual swimmers Mass
In one of her last engagements before her inauguration as President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly led public representatives at the 15th Annual ‘Swimmers Mass’ in St Mary’s Church, the Claddagh, Galway, on Saturday, November 8. The November Mass, which is offered for swimmers in the city and others who have died in the past year, was celebrated by…
A special present from the Pope to the Dublin Archdiocese
Pope Leo XIV gave Dublin a birthday present for the bicentenary of St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral that could not be matched. The prolonged and joyful applause when I had the privilege of announcing that Pope Leo had consented to my request and approved by decree that St Mary’s be designated as the Cathedral Church of our…
Hopefest event gathers young and old for a celebration of hope
Many braved the stormy weather on Saturday, November 15 to gather at Ardee Parish Centre, Co. Louth for ‘Hopefest: A Day of Praise and Worship’, an event filled with inspiring speakers, musical performances, and community. Around 350 attendees joined in the celebration, getting the chance to listen to testimonies from John Pridmore and Meabh Carlin,…
Archbishop Farrell: Pope Leo designates St Mary’s as Cathedral Church of Dublin
Archbishop Farrell: Two-hundred years ago today, on the Feast of Saint Laurence O’Toole, this church was dedicated. It was dedicated in a time when courage was required to conceive and undertake a project such as this. While we may rightly marvel at the Dublin Catholics of that time, with Catholic Emancipation still a few years…
Pope gives Dublin a Cathedral after 200 years
Breaking News On the Feast of St Lawrence O’Toole, the patron saint of the Dublin Archdiocese and the 200th anniversary of the building of the Pro-Cathedral, Pope Leo XIV has granted the city church the status of a full Cathedral. The announcement, which has been a closely guarded secret except to this paper, was announced…
Archbishop warns parents: fill out school survey or lose say in future plans
“Parents, who value their current school ethos, should be sure to fill-in this short survey. Otherwise, the choice of future school provision will be made for them” Archbishop Eamon Martin has said. He was responding to a survey launched by the Department of Education and Youth which is seeking views from parents on the kind…
Historian challenges romantic Celtic ‘golden age’ narrative
A leading Irish medieval historian has challenged the popular romantic idea of a Celtic ‘golden age’ of monasticism, arguing that early Irish Christianity was far more conflicted and human than its mythology suggests. Speaking at the John Main Seminar in Balally parish, which explored ‘The Vision of Celtic Christianity for the Crisis of the 21st…
Post primary teacher in-service ‘recharges’ religious educators
65 teachers from Co. Cork gathered for the annual Cork and Ross Post Primary Religious Education Teachers’ In-Service on November 6, where they discussed youth ministry, the implementation of the new Senior Cycle RSE resource and more. “I feel recharged after today…it was amazing to meet all the other religion teachers that are inspiring the…