Erin FoxSnowdrops, daffodils, St Brigid crosses and birdsong are all key symbols of spring. With winter almost gone, you will see and hear more birds gathering in gardens. Food can be scarce for birds even at this time of the year so welcome birds into your garden by placing a bird feeder in the centre. You…
Category: Your Faith
Dad’s Diary
Rory FitzgeraldAs I write, my wife is in the kitchen chopping vegetables, while somehow keeping our six-month-old baby daughter happy. The older two sit each side of me on the sofa, where I balance my laptop, homework, crayons and a colouring book. The annual St Valentine’s Day extravaganza is passed, with its notions that love is shown…
Clergy in key position to address suicide
Mags GarganMags Gargan talks to the people behind a new initiative to equip clergy to support people affected by suicide
Muintir Mhuire offers a place of ‘time out’
Courtney McGrailAnne Keeling visits a Christian community in Cork reaching out to young people
Delicious recipes for Pancake Tuesday
Lent is fast approaching which also means it’s time to get the pans out for Pancake Tuesday! Lent is about sacrificing luxuries to show our devotion to God, and Pancake Tuesday – or Shrove Tuesday – serves as a final day of indulging in goodies before 40 days of fasting. The name Shrove Tuesday comes…
Lent is an opportunity to rebalance our lives
Bairbre CahillFaith in the Family
Life’s little things
One Saturday morning, I resolved to help tidy my son’s bedroom – big mistake. Piled upon his bed I found: 12 ragged and much loved cuddly toys or ‘pets’ as he likes to call them, one toy samurai sword, three blankets, two odd socks, one cat shaped key chain, a bottle of water, one pocket…
Better for teens to be young, free and single
Maria ByrneA parent’s perspective
Love is more than a feeling
Wendy GraceThe word love is bandied around today so much that it can lose its meaning, writes Wendy Grace
Time for new attitudes towards alcohol
Cathal BarryHealthy Living with Cathal Barry