The Irish-American priest who founded the Knights of Columbus, one of the biggest charitable Catholic organizations in the world, has been beatified and is one step from canonisation as a saint. Fr McGivney’s process of canonization was begun in 1997 by Archbishop Daniel A.Cronin of Hartford. A miraculous cure for a child diagnosed with a fatal condition in […]
The Grey Wolves, an ultranationalist Turkish group loyal to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could soon be banned by French authorities.
Gunmen described as “Islamist terrorists” have killed at least four people and left another 17 injured in Vienna, in a night of terror where gunfire could be heard across the city centre. The attacks began in the Jewish quarter in central Vienna at 8pm Monday evening. Austrian police said they believed the attacks had a […]
The Rural Independent Group has called on the current Taoiseach, Michael Martin, and the leader of the Green Party, Eamon Ryan, “to emerge from hiding and earnestly address” the controversy surrounding the actions of the Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar, who shared information on a GP contract with the IMO with a rival organisation. Commenting on the […]
Irish rugby star Conor Murray has been announced as a new Ambassador for Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI) and he is urging his fans to get active and challenge themselves to run, jog, walk, cycle or swim a distance of 100 kms in 21 days – all while raising vital funds for the charity. DSI’s 21 day challenge […]
The family of a Derry teenager has hit out at headlines claiming their son was the ‘youngest person dying with Covid’ in the region, when their son had, in fact, tested ‘Covid negative’ when he died. Teenager Aaron Doherty was recorded as dying with Covid-19 because he had previously tested positive for the virus some […]
The terrorist group, Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for killing at least 18 people and burning down a church in the Baeti village in North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Reuters news agency reports. Kinos Katuho, the leader of a local civil rights group, told the outlet that […]
Famed traditional singer and much-loved Conemara composer, Tomás Mac Eoin, has won this year’s Gradam from RTÉ/Raidió na Gaeltachta in honour of a lifetime of work in conserving, promoting and celebrating the Irish language and traditional culture. Mac Eoin, from an Bóthar Buí in Conemara, is also an actor and a poet, and his command of […]
After a week of violent attacks on Polish churches, including vandalism of statues of the revered Polish Pope, John Paul II, Poles have come out in cities across the country to defend their places of worship. A ruling from Poland’s Constitutional Court which found that aborting unborn children with disabilities was discriminatory provoked fury from […]
A priest addressed a group gathered to pray in the Phoenix Park last night as pressure grows on the government to lift a ban on public Masses.
The New York Post, one of America’s oldest newspapers has said that Twitter is a “clear threat to healthy democracy” after the social media platform locked the paper’s account for publishing a major story into Hunter Biden. “Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you,” the paper wrote in a headline story accusing […]
Minister English will take a while to live this one down.