A Co. Kildare doctor, Adrian McGoldrick, who is recovering from the coronavirus, has warned others that an attack of Covid-19 can leave them with heart conditions and other health issues. “Don’t think that you can get the virus and that you will not suffer,” he has said. “Treat this virus with respect…this is going to be…
The View Between this week and next, schools across the country are due to reopen. Parents will be sending their children back to a school building for the first time since March, but this September many will be wearing a new uniform: a face mask. Children will be told to keep their distance from their…
The Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW) has said that the Government must push ahead with legislation to protect nursing home residents in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis where many of those who died were vulnerable people in homes. Welcoming the expert panel report on the issue, the social workers’ body insisted that “access…
Archbishop Antonio Filipazzi, Papal ambassador to Nigeria, has said the government was not doing enough to protect its citizens from violence, insurgents and other social vices. He also said the people being killed were not just Christians, but also Muslims. Speaking at a news conference as part of the finale of year-long celebrations of the…
Eight Cork parishes will be the first to provide a secure online donation system in the diocese of Cork and Ross. In an online statement, the diocese explained that the new measures were being trialled to combat the “substantial reduction” to priests’ salaries and parish incomes. Before the pandemic, “people have made it possible for…
There’s a fine line between disordered eating and an eating disorder writes Ruadhán Jones Many of us might have felt the urge to padlock fridge and cupboard doors over lockdown. Boredom, stress and the ready availability of food were a tricky trio to overcome. But while that kind of eating might be frustrating, it wouldn’t…
While we think we have become a less judgemental society, we have simply found new things to be judgemental about, writes David Quinn The revelation that 81 people, including some sitting politicians and other very senior members of the Irish establishment attended a golfing dinner in Clifden recently has caused understandable outrage among many members of…
The archbishop of Minsk prayed outside of a prison in Belarus where detained protesters were reported to have been tortured. With a rosary in his hands, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz [pictured] walked the streets in front of the Akrestsin Street pre-trial detention centre at 3pm on August 19, reported the website of the Catholic Church in…
Tributes have been paid to a late priest-philosopher who helped form generations of both priests and lay students at Maynoooth. Fr Donal Daly SVD – who was 84 – died “peacefully and patiently” after what confrères described as a long illness. Born in Fermoy in Co. Cork in 1936, he entered the noviciate of the…
Medical Matters Hippocrates is credited with the ancient quote that ‘all disease begins in the gut’. While modern medicine casts a different light on factors underlying most diseases, recent research has highighted the complex and interesting role our gut may play when it comes to general health. But how exactly might the gut influence this?…
Mary Kenny
Maria Steen
Ruadhán Jones
David Quinn
Dr Kevin McCarroll