A new Dublin and Glendalough diocesan fundraising project to support the provision of accommodation for refugees and those emerging from direct provision has been announced.
Almost 500 people turned up at the Abbey Hotel in Donegal Town on Wednesday evening to see one of Ireland’s best known TV chefs, Rachel Allen, launch the latest addition to the country’s culinary canon.
The first Camino de Glendalough took place in bright crisp conditions in the Wicklow Mountains on Sunday November 6.
The Anglican–Oriental Orthodox International Commission held its fifth meeting from the 24th to 29th October 2016 at the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, Antelias, Lebanon. The Archbishop of Dublin was among the Anglican members of the Commission present.
On the 24th of November 1916 through driving rain and gale force winds an unknown ship entered Ballinskelligs Bay. All was not well. The Eliezer, a 119 ton, Danish three mast schooner had left the Canadian port of Miramichi on 16th October with a cargo of timber bound for Limerick, but now was far from her intended course.
The Revd Ian Horner has been appointed as Rector of the Bailieborough Group of Parishes in the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. He has been the Curate of the Bailieborough Group since August 2014.
A ‘murder’ took place on 22nd and 23rd of October in the Canon Packham Hall in Saint Luke’s Parish, Douglas, County Cork. Over the two nights about 250 people witnessed the incident. It was the brainwave of Douglas Curate, the Reverend David Bowles, who orchestrated it all.
Carrigaline Union of Parishes in the Diocese of Cork held an All Age Sports Service in St Mary’s Church on 23rd October.
The President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, visited St John’s Parish Church, Donegore, on Thursday October 27 to see the grave of Irish poet Sir Samuel Ferguson.
On Monday, the Bishop met the clergy of two rural deaneries in the recently opened Ludgate Hub in what is now Ireland’s first 1gb town, Skibbereen.
