The Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, has been appointed as an Associate Editor on the editorial board of a new journal which is to be published by Brill of Leiden in the Netherlands called ‘Law and Religion’.
After a hugely successful Mabweni project in which the Oloosuyian Girls’ Secondary School sanitary block was built, in the summer of 2015 Bishop Patrick visited the project for TKA and Bishops’ Appeal, of which he is chair.
The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary, Tuam, was was full on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st May. The occasion of this was the Installation of a Dignitary and a Canon to the Cathedral Chapter.
A new chapter in the life of The Church of Christ in and around Ballina began on Monday 25th April in Saint Muredach’s Cathedral when Emma Rodrigues was commissioned to be Church Army Evangelist in the Ballina Churches Together Outreach and Mission Project.
On Friday evening (22nd April), family, friends and parishioners past and present gathered to celebrate the institution of the Revd Tanya Woods as Rector of the Annagh Group of parishes (Belturbet, Cloverhill, Drumaloor and Drumlane).
Thirteen young people, from around the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, together with several leaders, met up on Saturday, April 23rd, to discuss the homelessness crisis in Cork.
Ashton School, a Church of Ireland comprehensive school in Cork, has had a school chapel since 1988.
Sunday, 24th April 2016 marked the actual centenary of the Easter Rising, 1916. Earlier in the year, as suggested by the Department of Education and Skills to all schools in the country, schools in Cork, Cloyne and Ross embraced the idea of Proclamation Day on 15th March.
The Rev Canon George Irwin has retired after 27 years as rector of St Mark’s, Ballymacash. A Farewell Evening was held on April 16 in the Parochial Hall and was attended by around 200 parishioners.
An extraordinary meeting of Dublin and Glendalough’s Diocesan Synods took place on Wednesday April 20, in St Michael’s Church, Athy.