Trump trades in coarse insults. Other politicians show a more graceful way to prod your opponents
While the current US president takes to social media to hurl obscenities at his enemies, politicians have not always been so graceless
Catholic Bishops condemn International Protection Act as ‘anti-family’ and ‘neither fair, nor just’
Migrants’ council chair says it is deeply regrettable that Act provides for detention of children, even if as a last resort
Commission on sexual abuse to seek information on cases up to 2013 in public survey
Inquiry is not limited to schools run by religious orders, says chair
Bishop criticises ‘false’ depiction of Catholic schools as ‘grim places of indoctrination’
Groups funded by ‘ideological entities, many from outside the State’ are spreading distorted narrative, chair of bishops’ council says
School patronage: Can Hildegarde Naughton succeed where six other education ministers have failed?
Much of the opposition to divestment has been at local level, strongly felt and expressed, even by non-practising parents happy with the status quo
In a Word ... Iran
Pity the Iranian people caught between a barbarous regime at home, Washington and an Israel bent on elimination once again
In a Word ... Doom
To date, we’ve survived radio, the car, the gramophone, and TV – I have every confidence we will survive AI
Trump vs the pope: How Leo came to say he has ‘no fear of the Trump administration’
Pope Leo spoke of praying for peace as ‘a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us’
In a Word... Hamlet
Omelette was a scrambled version of Shakespeare’s play that we staged as students at the then University College Galway
‘I have yet to tell my father’: New Catholics on converting to the church this Easter
Mario Durán Domínguez and Joy Adedokun are among 129 people of mostly foreign backgrounds who are joining the church in Dublin this year
Once upon a time in Sallins: a very dark fairy tale
This is the story of how three men were found guilty of a train robbery after justice was derailed
‘It didn’t make any sense to separate us’: Twin priests celebrate turning 95 together
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