Last month the Department of Education and Youth launched a primary school survey to inform future school planning. One of its stated aims is to establish whether there is sufficient demand to transfer Catholic schools to other patron bodies. In such cases, the building and staff remain, but the controlling authority, governing the school’s ethos…
At this point, I think I can call myself a COP veteran – having attended most, if not all, of the climate negotiations over the last decade since the Paris Agreement. This COP in the equator city of Belém at the mouth of the Amazon, however, was special in so many ways. It was special…
It is a question facing every student in the current age: Why should I bother with this boring study if I can just get ChatGPT to do it for me? This temptation is undoubtedly very strong, and perhaps it even appears to be harmless. How should Catholics nowadays think about this issue? The first thing…
It is remarkable how seldom our political leaders contribute fresh ideas about policy or take risks in order to open up new fronts in tackling the nation’s problems. There are many reasons: Lack of imagination. Distrust of the electorate. Fear of one’s political opponents and how they might seize on any ‘gaffe’. Subservience to political…
Not so long ago, I travelled to a Catholic post-primary school – and was rather taken aback. At the entrance, beside the traditional Catholic images, was a Pride emblem which seemed to promote the interests of the LGBT agenda. The school was focused on inclusivity – and there was also a trans-themed poster on the girls’…
Trendy cafés and plush boutiques line the streets of Achrafieh, an upmarket neighbourhood where colourful Ottoman, French colonial, and art deco homes sit side by side near Beirut’s downtown district. The breeze carries the rattle of reconstruction from the damaged port area, while far overhead a surveillance drone sent from Lebanon’s southern neighbour buzzes relentlessly…
There is evidence that Ireland is becoming more cruel and less kind. Hardly a week goes by without some horrific case of domestic abuse, street assaults and attacks on IPAS centres that terrify people and put lives in danger. Hostile exchanges on social media are making matters worse. By way of response, the first thing…
Dear Editor, Allianz is an Israeli-owned insurance company which should be boycotted because of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. We know about the campaign by some members of the GAA to get that organisation to cut all ties with the Allianz Insurance Company because it is Israeli-owned. It is thought by some in…
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?…
As papal charity Aid to the Church in Need publish their Religious Freedom in the World Report showing that one in ten Christians in the world faces persecution for their faith, the Irishwoman who heads the global charity Regina Lynch takes time out to speak with The Irish Catholic”s Garry O’Sullivan about the work of…
Senator Ronan Mullen
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