How do you explain to a foreign national the meaning of the word ‘grand’, as we use it?

Vatican continues with plan to reduce the number of bishops/dioceses in Ireland

When it came to food, we lived in a very monochrome Ireland, spuds with everything, cabbage and carrots with most, plus meat or fish

Pope Francis’s decision to declare 2025 a ‘Jubilee Year of Hope’ entirely prescient, says Limerick Bishop

When I joined this newspaper years ago, I announced: ‘I am Patsy and by this name shall I be known heretofore. Hear ye me!’ And, lo, so it has been

Replicas are to be put on public display in Jesuit schools throughout Ireland

Among worshippers at the church in earlier times was writer George Bernard Shaw

A coffee shop experience something of a trial - here is some advice to navigate those exotic menus

You might say that, by any objective standard, the current designation of ‘a generation’ has become absurd

Survivors' group calls for common scheme to be established by June 1st to avoid need for legal route

Incidents of sexual abuse by Spiritans were among 2,395 allegations at 308 schools run by religious orders

A report has found that Irish 15-year-olds smoke less, drink less alcohol and exercise more than their European peers. This is disgraceful

Throughout his period as bishop he was at odds with the rigidities of the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI

Cork people believe they have it so good they are not bothered about making an impact on the national consciousness at all. To them, clearly, Cork is all

New provincial Fr Shane Daly (51) was ordained just 10 years ago