Bishop William Crean has announced the latest round of clerical changes in Cloyne Diocese. He has accepted the retirements of Fr Donal Coakley as PP of Inniscarra, Canon David Herlihy as PP of Youghal and Canon Michael Fitzgerald as PP of Mitchelstown. Effective September 21, Msgr Anthony O’Brien PP of Mallow is also to become…
It used to be the playroom, the place where our four played school all through the summer holidays, where they rehearsed and performed their own nativity plays each year. Now, it is more like the old-style grocery store in rural Ireland where you could buy a heavy iron skillet, a tin of beans and a…
Thirty years ago, Athlone woman Marion Carroll arrived at Knock Shrine in a stretcher suffering from multiple sclerosis. During the Mass she received benediction with the Blessed Sacrament and her sight and speech was restored and she began to walk. At the weekend she returned to Knock to hear Archbishop Neary pronounce that “today the…
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