An Irish expert in dialogue between Catholics and Muslims has said the protest and negativity regarding the Archbishop of Dublin’s attendance at a Muslim celebration at Croke Park is “misplaced”. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was met with screaming protestors outside Croke Park and has received criticism online for attending Eid al-Adha, one of two Islamic holidays…

Jason Osborne Just 385 general practitioners have signed up to the Government’s controversial scheme to carry out abortions despite handsome financial rewards for doing so. This stands against a backdrop of 3,496 GPs currently practicing in Ireland, which makes the percentage of GPs who’ve signed up to perform abortion in the country 11.01% of the…

Three of Ireland’s largest aid agencies, Concern, Trócaire and GOAL, have teamed up with the Government to implement a €1.5 million Covid response plan that aims to support 400,000 people. At the project’s launch last week, Ambassador of Ireland Lesley Ni Bhriain praised the “essential response work” the three charities will carry out in Sierra Leone.…

Jason Osborne Pro-life campaigner and student Gavin Boyne (22) has criticised what he has described as inconsistent criticism of when people come under fire on social media. This comes in the wake of the recent controversy surrounding Senator Fintan Warfield, which saw a picture surface on social media of the Sinn Féin representative wearing speedos and…

The Office of Public Works has rejected responsibility for the preservation of a pre-Anglo-Norman church and ancient stone crosses in south Dublin. Tully church and a number of ancient stone crosses date from between the 10th to the 13th Century, and the church is possibly of Hiberno-Norse design. In a response to a parliamentary question, Minister with…

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh has hailed John Hume as a “paragon of peace” for his key role in bringing an end to the conflict in the North. Mr Hume, 83, died early this morning (Monday), his family said in a statement. As a young man Mr Hume trained for the priesthood in Maynooth, before…

Comments made by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett criticising the Sisters of Charity after the order moved to wind down a Dublin nursing home have been described as “blinkered”. Mr Boyd Barrett – a People Before Profit member of the Dáil – described the sisters as “property magnates” who seem “to have lost any interest in…

Jason Osborne The national novena to Our Lady of Knock has become the latest high-profile casualty of a wave of events called off due to concerns about coronavirus. The event is postponed until perhaps later this year, Fr Richard Gibbons, PP Rector of Knock Shrine has announced. The novena began in 1977 and has continued in…

Seventeen senators and TDs across several parties have signed a letter for the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs highlighting their concerns about the treatment of the Uighur people in China. The letter asks that Ireland “immediately condemn the barbaric measures” used by Chinese authorities to decrease the Uighur population, the vast majority of which…

A hate campaign launched by the New IRA against the Primate of All-Ireland Eamon Martin has been condemned after intimidating posters were plastered outside St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry. Archbishop Eamon was targeted because he has been encouraging young Catholics to join the PSNI. In a parish newsletter published in February, the archbishop wrote: “I…