In a Word ... Concert‘My wife and I are big fans of your Saturday In a Word column. My job is to read it out loud’Sat May 11 2024 - 00:30
‘Ireland is not full’: Church leader warns about populists who play with paranoiaChurch of Ireland Primate Archbishop John McDowell tells General Synod Ireland has been right to welcome migrants and asylum seekersFri May 10 2024 - 19:00
In a Word … MayMayday in Ballaghadreen will be a fragrant affair, with music, crafts, market stalls, food stalls, fair games and moreSat May 04 2024 - 00:30
‘We even feel the Lord has abandoned us’: Catholic Archbishop of Dublin addresses decline‘Our country has changed, our lives have changed,’ Dermot Farrell told event in DonnybrookMon Apr 22 2024 - 15:43
Not ‘pinko do-gooders’ but helpers and supporters - how volunteers power the Society of St Vincent de PaulThe charity - marking its 180th anniversary this year - relies on 10,000 volunteers to help the most disadvantaged cope with the rising cost of living and soaring rentsSat Apr 20 2024 - 09:00
A joey is the perfect description for a word within a word‘Masculine’ contains within it the word ‘male’. Another is ‘chicken’ with ‘hen’ within, and ‘honourable’ with ‘noble’ within. Isn’t that thrilling?Sat Apr 20 2024 - 00:30
‘The vast majority of Ireland’s Jewish community does not support Netanyahu’Is opinion shifting among Jewish people in Ireland on Israel’s actions in Gaza?Mon Apr 15 2024 - 06:00
In a Word...Good FridaySeamus Heaney was born on Thursday, April 13th, 1939. ‘Thursday’s child has far to go.’Sat Apr 13 2024 - 00:30
Catholic Church’s downsizing only the beginning as attendances and incomes declineChurch of Ireland has already merged many of the 26 dioceses established in 1111 AD at the Synod of Ráth BreasailWed Apr 10 2024 - 15:30
Two west of Ireland dioceses lose bishops as Catholic Church downsizesMove is described as most radical change to Irish church structures in more than 900 yearsWed Apr 10 2024 - 12:23
In a Word...CaesarYou still have an awful lot of fans out there. They gave me an insight into how you probably felt that March day in the forumSat Apr 06 2024 - 00:30
Pathway to top of Croagh Patrick almost complete after more than three years of workThousands of tonnes of rock and soil moved by hand to make mountain safe and faster to climbSun Mar 31 2024 - 16:39
‘The war continues’: Gaza’s Christian minority seek shelter over Easter weekendChristian community of some 1,000 people has taken refuge in two churches in besieged Palestinian enclaveSun Mar 31 2024 - 06:00
How John McGahern’s sin was compounded in the minds of ‘careful and hostile’ interrogatorsIn a Word: Not only had he written an ‘problematic’ novel but he had also married a Finnish womanSat Mar 30 2024 - 00:30
Dublin Unitarian church to end Good Friday reading of Troubles deadAnnual commemoration will end tomorrow as no one has been killed in political violence in Northern Ireland for nearly five yearsThu Mar 28 2024 - 14:32
Past must be understood and accepted before people can move on from Troubles, says Catholic PrimateAnnual Mass for families of the Disappeared hears victims’ families ‘cannot find peace or trust until the truth emerges’ and their loss is ‘properly acknowledged’Mon Mar 25 2024 - 18:07
Justin McAleese was ‘terrified’ as a gay teenager at Catholic schools, says former presidentMary McAleese and Mary Kennedy speak to GAA president Jarlath Burns about Pride, partition and hurling in new weekly podcastSun Mar 24 2024 - 04:30
It is a truth rarely acknowledged that as a man grows older, so does his width extendIn a Word . . . SorrowSat Mar 23 2024 - 00:30
I’m bingeing on Derry Girls with subtitles in case I missed some of the jokesIn a Word . . . DerrySat Mar 16 2024 - 00:30
‘It’s a very special time’: Thoughts of Irish Muslim community with those in Gaza as Ramadan beginsDuring Ramadan fasting beckons for people in Gaza where food and water are already in short supplySun Mar 10 2024 - 06:00
Brace yourself, Brigid: Tips to look after your husband from a 1950s publication‘Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or other places of entertainment. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure’Sat Mar 09 2024 - 00:30
Ireland’s Catholic Bishops call for ‘all possible pressure’ on Israel to end Gaza offensiveBishops urge Israel ‘to comply with basic human standards’ and call on Hamas to release all hostages and end its attacksTue Mar 05 2024 - 16:00
Referendums: Presbyterian Church disappointed at ‘ambiguity’ in wording of proposed amendmentsAmendment proposing removal of link between marriage and family an ‘indication of Ireland’s changing culture’Tue Mar 05 2024 - 12:32
New auxiliary bishop appointed in DublinFr Donal Roche (65) will support Archbishop Dermot Farrell in leading the archdioceseTue Mar 05 2024 - 11:29
When Roscommon girls were ‘useless for cooking or anything else’There was fury at an educational committee meeting in the 1930s about women training to enter the workforceSat Mar 02 2024 - 00:30
Archbishop of Dublin calls on voters to remember values of ‘Catholic tradition’ in referendumsDermot Farrell says moral obligation to protect institution of marriage and support the vulnerable will remain regardless of outcomeFri Mar 01 2024 - 11:57
Referendums: Yes votes will see ‘new realities’ put into dated parts of Constitution, McAleese saysFormer president says proposals being voted on next Friday ‘part of a journey’ and ‘not a destination’Fri Mar 01 2024 - 11:00
Franciscan abuser priest Fr Ronald Bennett dies aged 88Bennett convicted of abusing boys at Gormanston College in Co Meath from 1973 to 1981Wed Feb 28 2024 - 14:37
Catholic bishops call for No vote in both March referendumsStatement read at Masses argues Yes votes would weaken incentive to marry and remove motherhood from ConstitutionSun Feb 25 2024 - 00:01
Michael O’Regan remembered as an ‘interested observer’ who had ‘no wish to be the story himself’Funeral of former Irish Times journalist held in Holy Cross Church, DundrumSat Feb 24 2024 - 15:19
Maeve Lewis to stand down from One in Four charity for sexual abuse survivorsLong-serving chief executive ‘made Ireland a different place’ for survivors, chair said in tributeFri Feb 23 2024 - 19:00
Why JFK’s original coffin had to be disposed of in the middle of the oceanIn a Word ... CoffinSat Feb 17 2024 - 00:30
Catholics who marry non-Catholics still require bishop’s permission, new guidance points outUpdated marriage preparation programme launched at Whitefriar Street Church in DublinMon Feb 12 2024 - 12:16
Thanks to democracy, I’ve become a has-been in my own houseIn a Word... RubbishSat Feb 10 2024 - 00:30
Jesuits’ report shows how welfare of children was deemed secondary to order’s reputationPushed by determined survivors, the religious order had to admit the long suspected, that they, too, had failed the children in their careThu Feb 08 2024 - 19:51
University of Galway is to review its relationship with Israeli institutionsProf Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh plans to strengthen University of Galway’s links with universities in Gaza, the West Bank and East JerusalemThu Feb 08 2024 - 18:09
More than 40 Jesuit priests accused of child sex abuse, report disclosesFindings relate mostly to priests at Belvedere College in Dublin, Crescent College in Limerick and Clongowes Wood College in KildareThu Feb 08 2024 - 15:38
Tributes paid to journalist and current affairs TV editor Paul Tanney (50)Journalist remembered as ‘steadfast character through thick and thin’Sun Feb 04 2024 - 15:08
Hurray! It’s time to wake up and smell the crocus In a word: Crocus, many specimens of which should be visible around you now, at lastSat Feb 03 2024 - 00:30
Northern Ireland has its first Jesuit bishop under leadership change in island’s second largest Catholic dioceseAntrim-born Bishop Alan McGuckian is something of an exception in being appointed bishop of his native diocese Down and ConnorFri Feb 02 2024 - 21:24
In a Word...HumanitiesThis is literary criticism by numbers, and numbers are all that many of these young geniuses understandSat Jan 27 2024 - 00:30
Church of Ireland raises over €100,000 to date for restoration of Gaza hospitalAl Ahli Arab hospital was badly damaged by a bomb in October, with as many as 200 killedWed Jan 24 2024 - 18:30
Groundbreaking Irish psychiatrist Ivor Browne dies aged 94Dubliner transformed Irish attitudes to mental illness and developed understanding of the role of traumaWed Jan 24 2024 - 18:06
Does Irish Medical Council approve of deliberate killing of patients, asks Catholic BishopBishop of Elphin Kevin Doran has written to the council president seeking clarification on the change in the latest edition of its ethical guideMon Jan 22 2024 - 17:27
Archbishop calls for solidarity with refugees and rebuttal of misinformationDermot Farrell says Catholics must ‘recognise our common humanity with the refugees and asylum seekers who have arrived in our midst’Mon Jan 22 2024 - 15:34
In a Word … Absurd‘We were so into the futility of life, the absurdity of existence, and existentialism in our late teens/early 20s’Sat Jan 20 2024 - 00:30
Bishops remind Roscrea that ‘we Irish, more than most, know what it is like to be a stranger in a foreign land’ Appeal comes amid tension in town over housing of asylum seekers in Racket Hall hotelWed Jan 17 2024 - 11:58
From Malta to Ghana, the cardinals in line to replace Pope Francis in the VaticanShadowy papal politics makes predictions difficult, but certain ‘papabile’ are already gathering their forcesMon Jan 15 2024 - 06:00
