It is a truism to acknowledge that there are people who saw last Christmas but will not be around this Christmas. It happens in the circle of life, but every empty chair at the Christmas table is a hole in the heart for their loved ones. Christmas is a time for remembering those that have…
For over 75 years, Rehab Group, has been a steadfast presence in communities across Ireland. What began as a small initiative in Dublin has grown – guided by compassion and purpose – into one of Ireland’s leading disability charities. Today we are proud to support more than 12,000 people every year, in over 257 locations…
In October this year, Misean Cara’s Learning & Development Manager, Seamus Collins, travelled to Brazil to visit missionary development projects that the organisation funds and supports. While there, he spent a lot of time with the Brazilian project teams who have now taken over from the Irish missionaries who spent many years in Brazil, building…
Community Connect, Ireland’s national Baby Bank Charity, invites everyone to embrace the true spirit of Advent this season by supporting its Christmas campaign, ‘A Bundle of Love this Christmas’. dvent is a sacred time—four weeks of hope, preparation and quiet anticipation as we await the coming of the Christ-child at Christmas. It is a season…
As Dublin comes alive with the spirit of Christmas, St Martin Apostolate at 42 Parnell Square West stands as a beacon of faith, community, and welcome in the heart of the city. Home to the much-loved Moving Crib, the Apostolate also offers visitors a peaceful Oratory, where Mass is celebrated Monday to Friday at 1…
When Belfast priest and board member of the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Fr Tim Bartlett recently suggested that BBC Northern Ireland shows a subconscious bias against Catholics, (and should be investigated) and when Aid to the Church in Need Director Harry Casey speaks of “polite persecution” in Ireland, many Catholics…
Dublin is coming alive with the joy of Christmas, and there’s no better way to begin the holiday celebrations than at The Moving Crib, now open at 42 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, running daily through 4 January 2026. Why not plan your Christmas outing today and share this cherished Dublin tradition with family and friends?…
The Catholic Medical Association of Ireland (CMAI) will host its 8th Annual Conference on Saturday, November 22, 2025 in the St Charles Centre, Mount Argus, Harold’s Cross. The speakers include Bishop Kevin Doran, Bishop of Elphin, Éamon Ó Cuív, former TD and Minister, Dr David Albert Jones, of St Mary’s University, and formerly of the…
The morning sun beats down on the city of Wau, South Sudan. In a modest classroom with yellow concrete walls at the Catholic Health Sciences Institute (CHSI), rows of smiling nursing students await the day’s lesson. They are studying anatomy and midwifery, gaining the skills to serve their country, where maternal mortality rates remain among…
I met Sr Miriam Duggan at the Divine Mercy Conference last February. Subsequently, I invited her to share something of her missionary story in Uganda and Kenya. She readily agreed and we were in touch regularly until the first of the articles was published in Missio Ireland’s summer newsletter, which was dispatched to our donors…