Dominicans hand over church petition

Three members of the Dominican congregation in Drogheda, Co. Louth marched to the order’s headquarters in Dublin last weekend bearing a massive petition calling for their church to remain open.

Twenty-seven parishioners joined in the 10-hour walk with the Dominicans as they carried some 20,000 signatures to the Dominican priory in Tallaght, Dublin, urging a reversal of the decision for the order to withdraw from Drogheda after 800 years of service in the town. 

Drogheda is one of five Dominican centres marked for closure across Ireland.