Magdalene compensation payments to be tax freeMeasure had been recommended by Justice QuirkeTue Oct 15 2013 - 17:41
Convention on the Constitution to hold public meetings across the StateFirst meeting in UCC on October 23rd, last of series in Monaghan on November 25thTue Oct 15 2013 - 01:02
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin defends Protestant schoolsDenominational education has a place within a pluralist society, he saysTue Oct 15 2013 - 01:00
Maths Week events take place throughout Ireland todayStanford professor to deliver free lecture on teaching maths through the use of video gamesMon Oct 14 2013 - 09:46
Administrator appointed to Waterford and Lismore dioceseIt follows resignation of Bishop William Lee on health groundsFri Oct 11 2013 - 20:07
Trimble and Mallon criticise Stormont Executive at DCU conferringFormer NI leaders awarde honorary doctorates by Dublin universityTue Oct 08 2013 - 19:15
Catholic bishops appeal to Government to give priority to prevention of suicideCaring for the elderly is ‘a noble vocation’, they saySat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00
Justice system stacked against abuse victims, says groupOne in Four calls on DPP to give reasons where decision is made not to prosecuteThu Oct 03 2013 - 19:31
Canonisation of two popular popes start of healing process in church at war with itselfJohn XXIII and John Paul II represent both left and right factions in churchTue Oct 01 2013 - 01:00
Michael O’Leary promises to improve Ryanair’s ‘awful’ websiteChief executive says airline’s attitude to customers must be ‘more sensitive and responsive’Mon Sept 30 2013 - 23:00
Strenuous objections to appointment of first woman bishop by Church of Ireland group‘God’s order for the family and for his church is male headship,’ says Reform IrelandSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
Australian priest first to be excommunicated by Pope FrancisAccused of heresy, throwing away consecrated host, speaking against churchThu Sept 26 2013 - 15:20
Positive reactions to Pope Francis interviewIrish Catholic Church’s response to referendum on civil marriage will show effects of pope’s comments, says gay groupSat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin very much in tune with Pope FrancisFrancis says church must not be ‘a comfort zone for the like-minded’Fri Sept 20 2013 - 22:04
Church of Ireland appoints first woman bishopRev Pat Storey is first female bishop in Ireland or BritainFri Sept 20 2013 - 17:35
Pope’s words warmly welcomed by Irish clergyAssociation of Catholic Priests’ spokesman ‘exhilarated’Fri Sept 20 2013 - 10:29
Pope Francis proclaims an end to the Church of small thingsThe church is “not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people”Fri Sept 20 2013 - 10:27
New Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath and Kildare electedChurch says unidentified bishop has asked for time to consider positionFri Sept 20 2013 - 07:47
Kenny insists his role allows him to be partisanTaoiseach's father Henry was on the very first Mayo team to win an All-Ireland in 1936Thu Sept 19 2013 - 09:55
Archbishop says supporting Mayo in All-Ireland finals ‘our Via Dolorosa’Will 2013 see an end to a vale of tears which has prevailed since 1989Wed Sept 18 2013 - 01:08
Aoibhinn expects Sam to see moonlight in Mayo next weekSeventh All Ireland in 24 years to be ‘the one’Mon Sept 16 2013 - 01:00
Priest criticises 'persecution' of liberal clergyFr Iggy O’Donovan says right-wing zeal ‘as pathological as the paranoia which feeds it’Sun Sept 15 2013 - 17:20
New book by Fr Tony Flannery not available in Veritas bookshopsCustomers told this was ‘a senior management decision’Thu Sept 12 2013 - 19:08
Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing deathPriest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ personWed Sept 11 2013 - 20:25
Journalist’s funeral told of a life ‘lived to the full’His ‘gifts as writer, musician and singer, husband, father and grandfather’ recalledSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:05
Jesuit leader condemns possibility of Syrian interventionPrayers for peace at Masses over weekend in response to Pope Francis appealSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
Slow progress in divesting of Catholic schoolsArchbishop of Dublin calls on communities to be ‘more radically honest with themselves’Fri Sept 06 2013 - 01:01
Merchant’s Quay report says homelessness and drugs use on the increaseCoolmine says it saves Government over €6m a year with addiction rehab programmesFri Sept 06 2013 - 01:00
Waters: I was weighed, measured and put in a cell with two menColumnist presented himself at Dún Laoghaire Garda stationWed Sept 04 2013 - 01:04
Fr Tony Flannery believes silencing to be an attack on priests’ association‘The great weapon of the Curia is secrecy, the great weapon of all oppressors’Wed Sept 04 2013 - 01:00
Papal nuncio’s qualifications to appoint Irish bishops questioned by Catholic priestHe ‘spent very little time in parish work and he has no formal training as a papal nuncio’Wed Sept 04 2013 - 01:00
Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’Tue Sept 03 2013 - 01:00
Inadequate legal system adding to pain of abuse victims‘I’ve lost my business, my marriage, and now my home would be in jeopardy’Mon Sept 02 2013 - 18:35
Burton insists social welfare rates will not be cut in budgetMinister for Social Protection says EU needs new approach to growth and job creationSat Aug 31 2013 - 20:46
‘Magnificent’ Lockout production in former Dublin tenement housePresident attends performance at Number 14 Henrietta Street which illustrates impact on families of 1913 strikeSat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00
HSE report into former tennis coach accused of abuse 'awaits verification'Alleged abuser not charged despite Garda statements from seven womenWed Aug 28 2013 - 00:59
New seminarians welcomed to national seminary at MaynoothNumbers ‘not enough’ to fill gapsTue Aug 27 2013 - 01:00
Children of the diaspora come back to spread the gospel in IrelandCardinal, papal nuncio and two bishops welcome newly-arrived nuns to DroghedaTue Aug 20 2013 - 01:00
Huge turnout for Justice Kevin Feeney funeral in DublinThe passions of Justice Kevin Feeney’s life “were family, friendship, work and sport”Mon Aug 19 2013 - 18:46
Father of former president Mary McAleese to be buried tomorrowPaddy (Patrick) Leneghan has died aged 88Sun Aug 18 2013 - 22:48
Major disconnect between Irish students and Catholic Church, a random poll has foundOver 78 per cent perceive Church negatively followinig scandalsSat Aug 17 2013 - 12:03
Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal arrive in Drogheda‘They will not be teaching in schools or working in hospitals’Fri Aug 16 2013 - 01:36
Controversial priest to ‘recharge the batteries’2006 concelebrated Mass with Protestant rector a misjudgment, says Iggy O’DonovanWed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00
Forbidding eulogies at funerals ‘harsh’, according to Dublin’s Catholic archdioceseEulogies for celebrities, not ‘little people’, complained letter writerTue Aug 13 2013 - 01:00
Church message ‘increasingly counter-cultural’, says Coadjutor Archbishop of ArmaghFaithful must act upon ‘conscientiously held views’, especially on abortion, says Eamon MartinMon Aug 12 2013 - 01:00
Blues on the Hill as rebels yell in victoryBitter defeat as Cork robs Dubs of shot at All Ireland senior hurling titleMon Aug 12 2013 - 01:00
Wexford house where children abused by priest now a crecheVictim of Fr Seán Fortune feels it should be demolishedFri Aug 09 2013 - 01:00
‘Man on Bridge’: collection marks 50 years of snap decisionsPublic invited to upload pictures by Dublin photographer Arthur Fields to web archiveThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
Ireland criticised for not offering asylum to whistleblowers Manning and SnowdenBoth are ‘modern-day heroes’, claims President of Irish CNDWed Aug 07 2013 - 01:00
