Family behind well-known hotel launch cookbook for Childline Many families who are under lockdown are re-discovering the art of cooking – with varying degrees of success. Now, the family behind the famous Gougane Barra Hotel in Ballingeary, Co. Cork have launched a cookbook in aid of Childline. Chef Katy Lucey and daughters Jane and Ali…
RóiseMcGagh gives some ideas on celebrating the ancient Irish festival of Bealtaine Bealtaine is the word for May in Irish, it marks an ancient festival, one of the most significant historic dates in Ireland. It is also known as a month to celebrate and pray to Our Lady. At the moment, gathering for Bealtaine is…
Living Laudato Si’ My hope today is that you and your family are all safe and well. Many people are commenting on how they can hear the birdsong more clearly these days, how everything is so quiet, how there are more bees around this year, how they are planting in their gardens or noticing…
John Updike, after recovering from a serious illness, wrote a poem he called, Fever. It ends this way: “but it is a truth long known that some secrets are hidden from health”. Deep down we already know this, but as a personal truth this is not something we appropriate in a classroom, from parents or…
Personal Profile “I was being put up on a barstool in a pub when we came home to Achill from about 1975 to sing for my grandfather’s buddies at the bar,” says James Kilbane. The Gospel and Country singer spoke to The Irish Catholic about his upbringing and his thoughts on faith. He says…
Medical Matters The death toll from Covid-19 in Ireland has exceeded 1,000 with almost two months passing since the first reported mortality. The number of deaths is more than triple that of even a bad flu season and would be manifold greater if not for restrictions and social distancing. While huge focus was placed…
In those dim and distant pre-lockdown days, I remember having the liberty to take non-essential journeys. One such frivolous expedition saw me set out on a beautiful spring morning for Tipperary. When the kids asked where I was going, I fobbed them off with an excuse. In fact, I was going to see a man…
Beating boredom with online education In these days of lockdown, it can be a headache for parents to keep children occupied due to the need to stay indoors for long periods. Children aren’t able to go outside and play with their friends so boredom can become a powerful adversary. There are multiple online resources that…
Róise McGagh chats to a specialist in marriage and relationships counselling from Accord about the issues heightened by lockdown No one’s relationship is perfect. They require constant work in order to keep both parties happy, contrary to the songs; love is not always simple. Issues that usually crop up in relationships are undoubtably going…
Personal profile “You have grenades going over, not knowing where they’re going to land and you have bullets flying – like our house had a number of bullet holes,” says Sr Bridget Lacey, speaking of her personal experience of an attack on a refugee camp where she was working at the time. It was…
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