Pro-life ‘feedback meetings’ being held
A leading pro-life group will be running ‘feedback meetings’ to listen to ideas and strategies that will go towards helping to protect Ireland’s unborn children and their mothers following the repeal of the Eighth Amendment.
LoveBoth, who have been instrumental in the Irish pro-life movement, are running surveys to hear peoples’ thoughts on how to move forward. They have organised meetings across Ireland for people’s ideas and concerns to be raised.
Areas range from Limerick and Athlone to Galway and Kilkenny. For more information about the meetings, including where and when they will be taking place, see: https://loveboth.ie/
Irish home care is a priority says Minister
Home care must be improved to meet the changing needs of our citizens and they must be put on statute to ensure every citizen has equal access to the services, the Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People has said.
Following the launch of the report on the findings of the Department of Health’s public consultation on home care services, Jim Daly, TD, said that because home care provides crucial support, the development of a new statutory home care scheme and associated system of regulation will be implemented in Ireland.
“This proposed scheme will allow older people to live longer happier lives in their own homes,” the minister said.
Bastion of ‘hope and meaning’ rededicated in Knock
Following the completion of renovation works at the Parish Church and Apparition Chapel in Knock, a rededication Mass was celebrated in June 23 by the Archbishop of Tuam.
Dr Michael Neary said: “If the walls of this parish church could speak then they would tell the story of the struggles of those who have gone before us, who worshipped here and who held on to God in days far more challenging than our own.”
He said that since 1989 the church has welcomed pilgrims from around the country and “across the world as they come in search of hope and meaning”.