The oldest Irish person in history has died aged 113. Co. Clare native Kathleen Snavely passed away at a nursing home in New York on Monday. In an interview, she recalled arriving in the US with just a few dollars to her name. “I remember when I had nothing,” she said. “I just thank God…

During a visit to Knock Shrine the Connaught rugby team dropped in to meet the team at the HUB youth ministry centre, as they opened up for the summer season.

A case being taken against RTÉ by a former Catholic archbishop who had alleged that he was defamed by the broadcaster has been settled at the High Court. Richard Burke claims that material used in RTÉ’s Mission to Prey programme broadcast in May 2011 wrongly branded him as a paedophile. RTÉ had denied defamation. However,…

“The minimum wage has to move towards minimum living wages level”

The Irish diaspora in the UK has been urged to speak up on the importance of access to RTÉ longwave radio, including Sunday Mass, as part of a research programme to access the future of the service. Last September RTÉ announced that its longwave service would cease transmission in October to allow it to focus…

The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has described the decision of a Dutch pro-abortion group to target Ireland with a drone delivery of abortion pills as “a cheap publicity stunt”. Responding to Women on Waves’ threat that they will target Ireland following their delivery of abortion pills to Poland last week by drone, PLC spokesperson Cora…

Susan Gately More than 250 members of catechism study groups from all across the country gathered in Maynooth this week to face the challenge of the new evangelisaiton in a radically changing culture. The Church is living in a new context, Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon, France, told the gathering. Christians, he said, are a…

About 30,000 people take part in pro-life march

Pope Francis has a packed schedule in his first papal visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America, writes Greg Daly

‘Spin’ distracting from core education cuts