Fay Morrison enjoying some delicious Italian-style ice cream at Gino’s Gelato, Grafton Street, Dublin to celebrate a successful fundraising campaign for Temple Street Children’s Hospital. The campaign which launched in June, raised €10, 057.44 for the hospital over three months with a donation made from the sale of every large gelato sold between June and…
Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo being presented with a cross by Fr Kieran Mc Dermott, Administrator of St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Dublin, at his solemn liturgical reception as Papal Nuncio to Ireland, which was attended by members of the Diplomatic Corps with Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin welcoming Archbishop Okolo to the pro cathedral. Pic: John McElroy.
Vatican: Pope Francis pats the head of a young relative of Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes during a private audience with the president at the Vatican.
Sligo: Shauna Greene, from Roscommon, receives the St Asicus Award for excellence in Religious Education, from Bishop Kevin Doran, on her graduation from St Angela’s College NUIG.
Dublin: Pat Doyle, Eoghan Murphy and Peter McVerry from the Peter McVerry Trust at the charity’s Annual Report 2016 Launch last week.
Poland: Nationalists light flares and carry flags to mark Poland’s 99th anniversary of independence in Warsaw, November 11.
Wexford: Mr Simon Tu, representative of Taiwan to Ireland, visits Enniscorthy with Bishop Denis Brennan and TD James Browne. Mr Tu’s visit aims to strengthen economic, social and cultural links between his country and Wexford.
Mexico: A truck commutes through the Anapra neighbourhood in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city that borders the US city of El Paso in Texas. Border controls have steadily increased since the 1990s.
Cork: Bishop John Buckley presents Mairin Ni Shuilleabhain with the insignia of Dame of Saint Gregory the Great, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Carraig na bhFear.
Antrim: Bishop Noel Treanor, Fr Charles Lwanga Kaweesi, Fr Derek Kearney, Canon Brendan Murray – Spiritual Director of Down & Connor Apostolic work – Fr Sean Emerson PP Antrim, Fr Felix Mc Guckin, Fr James O Reilly with other priests associated with mission at the annual Mass in Down and Connor to celebrate the work carried…