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
Eminent theologian Seán Freyne dies‘Huge loss to theology,’ says former president Mary McAleeseWed Aug 07 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
‘Media attacks’ on religious condemned‘Combination of hypocrisy and moral righteousness is a very unpleasant sight’Tue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00
Irish gay group praises Pope Francis’s airborne commentsGay Catholic Voice Ireland says interview content represents a ‘significant development from previous papal pronouncements’Tue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00
Authorities on alert for Border area cockfightsMoney changing hands over illegal bloodsportTue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00
Meeting with Bishop Casey led to revelationsPeter Murphy tells how stepfather confronted Bishop of GalwayMon Aug 05 2013 - 01:00
Peter Murphy: My father, Bishop Casey, and meIn 1992 The Irish Times revealed bishop of Galway Eamon Casey had a son with Annie Murphy. Now 38, he tells the story of his relationship with his fatherSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Reaching out to Ireland’s Jewish diasporaGathering event aimed at 50,000 Irish JewsWed Jul 17 2013 - 07:20
Garda Commissioner expresses ‘regret’ at handling of abuse claims in Murphy reportMartin Callinan admits abuse victims did not receive ‘appropriate attention’Mon Jul 15 2013 - 01:00
Garda handling of McCabe allegations ‘shocking’It was ‘material in allowing Fr McCabe to evade justice’Sat Jul 13 2013 - 06:41
Catholic Archbishops castigated by Murphy report for handling of McCabe abuse allegationsIn 1988 Dublin’s bishops ‘set him loose on the unsuspecting population of Stockton, California’Sat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Chapter 20 of Murphy report distils horror of world that had lost its moral compassAnalysis: amoral institutions protected before the welfare of childrenSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
