Search Results for 'Catholic Church'

The release of a nationwide survey to all parents of children aged 0-12 by the Department of Education and Youth has been welcomed by GRETB. The survey, https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/campaigns/primary-school-survey/, aims to assess the appetite amongst parents for multi-denominational, co-educational and Irish-medium education.

It is not just Israeli drones hovering around Camp Shamrock, observing what Irish troops are up to, 126 Battalion chaplain Fr Paul Murphy has an eagle eye peeled too.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is offering an elegant 1940s residence on a circa 1-acre elevated site in Beaghbeg, Caherlistrane, Co Galway.

The quiet removal of Bishop Eamonn Casey’s remains from the crypt beneath Galway Cathedral has ignited both reflection and division across Ireland. The move, carried out discreetly in recent weeks and only confirmed in a statement from the Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora last weekend, marks a historic and unprecedented decision in the Catholic Church in Ireland. It follows months of internal consultation and dialogue with the late bishop’s family and comes a year after explosive allegations of child sexual abuse were aired publicly in an RTÉ documentary.

“I’m young enough” he maintains, as the 53-year-old steeples his hands thoughtfully, sitting in the boardroom in City Hall. This prayer-like posture comes naturally for an ordained deacon of the Catholic church, who ranks his family, faith and a community-development based approach to his work, as the three pillars of his worldview.

The 2025 Galway Early Music Festival will celebrate the 500th anniversary of a giant of Renaissance music.

Sherry FitzGerald presents Carraig an Aifrinn, a substantial, architecturally designed split-level four bedroom detached home, offering panoramic views of Galway Bay and the Burren and located less than 1km from Spiddal beach, with its extensive promenade.

By Seán O'Casey

In a week when the next president of the USA appointed an official to oversee an expulsion of undocumented migrants, Galway City councillors were celebrating the life of a man who dedicated his to regularising illegal immigrants in America.

The Dominican Order was formally approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216, “to witness to the truth of the Christian Faith and to proclaim it at home and abroad”. St Dominic died in 1216, and in 1224 the Dominicans first came to Ireland. They came to Connacht, to Athenry, in 1241, and they finally arrived in Galway in 1488.