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The battle for Ireland’s Catholic soul will not slacken in 2024

January 02, 2024

Literary critic Harold Bloom said that all poets must confront their precursors in a type of “Oedipal struggle in order to create an imaginative space for themselves”. He felt that those who came late to the scene of cultural upheaval go through a process of “misreading” their predecessors. It appears as if progressive Ireland

Has Ireland’s abortion clamour contributed to another mismanaged sepsis death?

December 16, 2023

An Irish teenager died in University Hospital Limerick due to delays in recognising and treating sepsis, The Sunday Independent reported on 10 December after a review into her treatment and care following reports she spent a significant time on a hospital trolley. Aoife Johnston was 16 when she died on 19 December last year. The

Was Irish bard Shane McGowan let down by his own funeral Mass and by his Church?

December 12, 2023

No one does death like the Irish. So the saying goes. Or so we tell ourselves. When a funeral cortege makes its way from the Church to the graveyard, people come out of their houses to stand on the side of the road to pay their respects as the hearse passes. Many people walk solemnly

Another attack on womanhood – this time in Ireland

December 07, 2023

The mania in Ireland for believing that everything that happened before yesterday was old, archaic, tainted with Catholic values and therefore must be ditched in the nearest dumpster continues apace. It has been announced that next year Ireland will mark International Women’s Day with a referendum proposing to erase the word “woman” from the Irish

The closure of the Franciscan Friary in Athlone is symptomatic of the wider loss of religion in Ireland

July 26, 2023

By Ronan Doheny In recent years, Ireland has seen religious orders close community houses across the country due to lack of vocations. These closures are normally accompanied with brief news articles with local people expressing sadness, but few others in the wider public take notice of the impact. As an archivist, before Christmas I had

Irish PM says primary school children must learn ‘what it means to be transgender’

March 07, 2023

A row has emerged between Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, and the Irish Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA), which has an oversight role in 89 per cent of the primary schools in Ireland. In a letter to Irish government children’s and education ministers, the schools association challenged views expressed by the minister for children

Dublin archbishop calls residential zoning of Church buildings ‘extraordinary attack on Catholic faith’

February 24, 2023

The Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, has criticised the inclusion of Church buildings and land under a new residential zoning land tax which is being proposed by Dublin City Council. Speaking to the Irish Independent, the Archbishop described the move as “an extraordinary attack on the Catholic faith”. But is this really the case?

Irish teacher sacked by school over use of pronouns for transgender pupil

January 23, 2023

It was announced on Friday that Irish schoolteacher, Enoch Burke, was sacked from his job at Wilson Hospital School, a private Church of Ireland school in Co. Westmeath, Ireland. The dismissal followed a protracted and very public disagreement from when Mr Burke was initially suspended on full pay from his role for refusing to address