Perhaps our New Year’s Resolutions should be to make more time for friends, family and God, writes FR Martin Delaney My father loved clocks and watches. His most treasured possession was a pocket watch bought with his first wage packet as a young man. At the age of 94, when he was dying, he called…

Editor Michael Kelly reflects on ‘the idea of a community coming together to help one another and ease the burden’ in times of struggle More than a few commentators have described the recent levels of rainfall as biblical. And the suffering has been (and continues to be) immense. Homeowners have struggled heroically – and often…

“Just because you are free to offend doesn’t mean you must offend at all times”, writes Mary Kenny It’s just been a year – on January 7 – since the terrifying, and wicked, Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, when two Muslim brothers, Chérif and Said Kouachi, opened fire at the French satirical magazine’s office, killing…

Margaret Cartwright There are ambitious plans to put the promotion of vocations centre-stage in 2016, writes Margaret Cartwright Vocations Ireland is excited about receiving a recent grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. This will give us the opportunity to plan and develop new programmes towards helping the development of a growth in the understanding…

‘More Independents and smaller parties than ever before’ leads voters to ‘feel disenfranchised’, writes Breda O’Brien Journalists love elections. They are an endless source of stories, and even in particularly dull elections, opinion polls can be used to drum up interest. The next election promises to be anything but dull. In a recent article Geraldine…

Greg Daly considers some common criticisms of the soon-to-be canonised Blessed Teresa of Kolkata The December 18 announcement that a second miracle had been formally attributed to the intercession of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata has sparked some predictable reactions. With the way to Blessed Teresa’s canonisation being opened and with the Vatican having set September…