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Dragon takes on WMOF €15 million challenge

Well-known TV personality Norah Casey has taken on the task of raising around €15 million to finance the  WMOF in August. Speaking on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live, the former dragon said Pope Francis had given her back her faith. “Like most Irish people I have a chequered history with Catholicism,” she said, going from “cradle Catholic”…

Derry Diocese celebrates family

Fr Pat O’Hagan   In anticipation for the World Meeting of Families the Diocese of Derry held a conference entitled ‘A Celebration of Family’, which was organised by the diocesan working group set up by Bishop Donal McKeown in December 2016 The venue was St Mary’s College on Derry’s Northland Road, and it proved to…

Amoris Training Day empowers participants

‘Enthusiastic’ and ‘committed’ were some of the words chosen to sum up the feelings of delegates at the end of a diocesan training day on the Amoris ‘Let’s Talk Family – let’s be family’ course. Over one hundred representatives of parishes in the Kildare and Leighlin diocese attended the day at St Patricks’, Carlow College…