Irish people have raised over €1.3million for overseas development charity

Dates confirmed for public display

Dedicated publication hits Italian shelves

Prayers for 80 victims buried together

Redemptorists host five-day candleweek

A radical Islamist group fighting in Syria has ordered Christians to pay a ‘gold levy’ to continue living in areas it now controls. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), one of the most extreme rebel groups battling the forces of President Bashar al Assad has announced that Christians in the eastern city…

There was great excitement in Good Shepherd parish, Doughiska Ros Cam and Ardan, Galway last week with the opening of the new Merlin Wood Primary School, which was blessed by Bishop Martin Drennan who also cut the tape with Fr Martin Glynn PP and school principal, Paula O’Connor. Photo: Peter Brennan

Prayers will be ‘a precious treasure’ – Pontiff

Scaffolding represents the last major external work.

An intercession linked with Pope Paul VI has been approved as a miracle by a team of theologians in Rome, bringing the late Pontiff closer to sainthood. The case, dating to the 1990s, involves an expectant mother who was warned by doctors that her child was suffering medical complications which could result in brain damage.…