From the HSE to Church of Ireland dean: ‘I took a huge salary cut, but I’ve never been happier’
‘Sitting in meetings would have killed me’ says Canon Tom O’Brien of his unlikely career change
Church of Ireland
Enoch Burke’s dismissal from Westmeath school confirmed amid end of appeals process
Court hears jailed teacher does not accept decision
Remembrance Day: Peter Murtagh on a Wicklow golf club’s 100-year-old tradition and a very special trophy
In 1942, the year he had hoped to be playing golf in Delgany, Leslie Butler’s colleagues in the RCB instituted a prize in his name
‘I’ve got friends and connections in this country that I never believed I would have had’
When a job interview in Italy fell through, Clark Brydon moved from England to Ireland to sing with a choir
‘Shock’ in Wicklow after former rector accused of abusing girls in UK before move to Ireland
Church of Ireland issued notice last week about ‘serious safeguarding disclosures’ regarding former Blessington rector Kesh Govan
Ordaining women will strengthen the Church, not diminish it
No convincing biblical impediment to their ordination, either
Role of Protestant churches in mother and baby institutions
Oppressive treatment of women and children crossed religious and social boundaries
Catholic weddings in Ireland drop by more than half in 10 years
Overall marriages also declined since 2014, as civil registrations and humanist ceremonies grow
The Irish origins of an increasingly popular theology in the US
Believers of rapture theology assert there will be a second coming of Jesus Christ and a day of judgment
Church of Ireland ‘less likely’ to let vacant rectories due to rent reforms
Church’s representative body sought meeting with Ministers to discuss ‘possibility of an exemption’ from new rent rules
Life at Ireland’s biggest boarding school: ‘I have so much more independence’
At Kilkenny College, a co-educational school under Church of Ireland patronage, student boarders are given a voice
One of Ireland’s first women priests reflects on Christmas
Rite & Reason: This was a revelation of what church-going needed to be - a sharing of God’s love and an invitation to be part of that love in our daily lives and relationships
Anglican schism as traditionalists reject first female Archbishop of Canterbury
Church of Ireland archbishops have reasserted their loyalty to Canterbury
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