Dear Editor, The photo of the four young women accompanying Greg Daly’s article (‘Keeping your range of university options open’, IC 18/08/2016) is a probably unintentional but appropriate illustration of a modern phenomenon in higher education – the vanishing male university student. Yours etc., Hugh Gibney, Athboy, Co Meath.
Dear Editor, Hard working Irish families pay huge taxes many of them used to pay for the problems caused by our government, a lot of them to pay for benefits for people claiming to be refugees and asylum seekers, but not all are genuine. When they are refused this status there is a long legal…
Dear Editor, I wish to voice my total and absolute support for Archbishop Diarmuid Martin with regards to Maynooth. He is perfectly right to remove his seminarians even if there are only three. He cannot and should not take any risk that could affect the formation of these three men to the priesthood. These allegations…
It’s funny where you can learn a lesson and catch a glimpse of the divine. Recently, in a grocery store, I witnessed this incident: A young girl, probably around 16 years of age, along with two other girls her own age, came into the store. She picked up a grocery basket and began to walk…
Dear Editor, I noted with great interest the biography of Daniel Mannix reported on in The Irish Catholic of August 11 (‘Archbishop Mannix biography scoops literary prize’). I will certainly be seeking out my own copy of this record of a most fascinating figure. Given, however, that the biography has been penned by a native…
“We have all lost loved ones to suicide, alcoholism and other ways of dying that are far from ideal”, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser
“The State has a fundamental responsibility to cater for parents who do not want to send their children to a faith-based school”, writes Michael Kelly
“It’s no longer about equal rights, the number-crunchers conclude: it’s about the pink dollar. It’s business”, writes Mary Kenny
The selfless life inevitably means self-sacrifice, writes David Quinn
The framers of the Irish Constitution emphasised human dignity when much of Europe had abandoned it, writes Niall Guinan
Courtney McGrail
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Michael Kelly
Mary Kenny
David Quinn