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Would I get 10 votes or 10,000? In Dún Laoghaire, impossible to say

February 13, 2020

It is a strange thing to belong to a country you had always imagined to be more or less normal – whatever that means – and then, all of a sudden, realise that it is anything but. For the past couple of weeks I have been doing something I never thought I would find myself

At the Irish elections, a Catholic vision was hard to find

February 13, 2020

Ireland has just voted in a new Dáil, and it’s one that represents a well and truly post-Catholic Ireland. If the recent same-sex marriage and abortion referendums were in part about rejecting Ireland’s Catholic past, the general election of 2020 felt like the one in which the Church and Catholicism were mostly beside the point.

Irish Catholic counselling agency agrees to help gay couples

July 24, 2018

The government had threatened to remove its funding

Riverdance to perform for Pope Francis at World Meeting of Families

July 20, 2018

The 'Festival of Families' will be a two-hour spectacle of music and dance

Tickets for papal events in Ireland are selling out fast

June 25, 2018

But places can still be reserved for Pope Francis's open-air Mass in Phoenix Park

Will Ireland’s Catholic hospitals defy Varadkar?

June 21, 2018

The prime minister is demanding that Catholic hospitals perform abortions. Will they comply?

Critics plan rival conference to World Meeting of Families in Dublin

June 18, 2018

The parallel conference will feature Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Cardinal Burke

Does Leo Varadkar want to close all of Ireland’s Catholic hospitals?

June 14, 2018

If Varadkar forces them to perform abortions, they cannot stay Catholic

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