Category: Irish News

Vocations drive gets boost from generous grant

EXCLUSIVE ‘Delight’ at funding from Hilton Hotel fortune Efforts to promote vocations to religious life in Ireland will move up a gear in 2016 thanks to a generous grant from a US-based foundation set up by hotel billionaire Conrad Hilton, The Irish Catholic can reveal. Vocations Ireland, an umbrella organisation which helps religious orders to…

Marie-Claire Campbell (8) from Foxrock peering through some international flags as she listens to a speaker at the World Day of Prayer For Peace Mass celebrated by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Foxrock, Dublin. Photo: John McElroy

Bishop John Buckley of Cork and Ross, former Cork and Sarsfield’s hurler, watched by club Chairman, Cllr Thomas Gould and main organiser, Jason Daly, launching the St Vincent’s GAA Dave McCarthy Memorial Poc Fada at Clogheen, Cork. Photo: Mike English

RTÉ will not reinstate Gloria programme

RTÉ will not reconsider its decision to axe Tim Thurston’s popular Sunday morning radio programme, Gloria, despite a petition calling for its reinstatement gaining support from thousands of loyal fans. Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Head of RTÉ Lyric fm, told The Irish Catholic that he was hopeful listeners would “hear Tim again in the future” but…