Nine-day charity walk from Dublin to Knock The charity Mary’s Meals is planning a nine-day fundraising walk from Dublin to Knock next month. They have issued a call for people to join in the walk for an hour, a day or even the whole journey. The walk begins on Bank Holiday Monday, August 7 at…

A Dublin schoolgirl was among the tens of thousands who took to Dublin’s streets on Saturday for the annual Rally for Life. See pages 8 & 9. Photo: John McElroy

Passionist priest, Fr Gary Donegan CP, has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of Ulster for his outstanding community work within Northern Ireland. Photo: Nigel McDowell/Ulster University

Participants from the Diocese of Elphin and the Parish of Kilnamanagh-Castleview (Dublin) who walked the Camino from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela, Spain led by Bishop Kevin Doran and Fr Michael Murphy Adm. Kilnamanagh-Castleview.

Fr Charles Lafferty SAC pictured with his parents, John and Joan Lafferty, and Bishop Donal McKeown following his ordination in St Mary’s Church, Ardmore in Derry last week.

The Clare Rose, Aoife Murray with Bishop Fintan Monahan on the Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes last week, where she was part of the carer team.

The Government has been urged to ensure that refugees arriving here from war-torn countries be integrated into local communities as soon as possible to aid their recovery. This comes against a backdrop of reports that fewer than a third of the 4,000 refugees Ireland has promised to accept by the end of this year have…

Baroness Nuala O’Loan has described the failure of Sinn Féin and the DUP to work together as “a scandal” that has prevented funds being allocated across the North. “Our schools, hospitals and infrastructure are being starved of resources which should be available. £42m remains available and unallocated from the spring budget,” she said, adding that…

The Christian Brothers have continued to defend their decision to sell pitches worth €18m beside a Dublin school, as they are under legal obligation to do so. Despite backlash from the Board of Management of Clonkeen College in Deansgrange and the local community they have made no indication they will renege on their legal commitment…

Proposals to bar oversubscribed Catholic schools from prioritising admissions based on religious grounds are untenable and make no legal sense, a leading expert on the Irish Constitution has said. Minister for Education Richard Bruton last week announced plans to deny Church-owned primary schools the right to include religion as a selection criterion when oversubscribed, stating…