St. Luke’s National School, Douglas, Cork, recently developed a specialised soft surface play area for the children of the school.
The Revd Judi McGaffin outlines five biblical principles for considering the needs of people with disabilities, and the Disability Working Group’s call for best practice ideas for caring for people living with dementia.
St Mary’s Church, Killarney, has won a Preservation Award for its church railings restoration project in this year’s Tidy Towns competition.
CMSI staff Jenny Smyth, Gillian Maganda & Roger Thompson, local clergy and readers, friends and supporters joined worshippers at St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, on Sunday night for a special service of commissioning for Keith and Lynn Scott.
In a first for the city of Waterford, The Most Revd Alphonsus Cullinan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, preached for the first time in Christ Church Cathedral on Remembrance Sunday.
It started with a picture of a small boy, dazed and bloodied, sitting in an ambulance after an air strike in Aleppo. It ended with almost 3,000 boxes and bags of direct aid leaving Clifden in The West of Ireland for Syria and Iraq. This is the story of what happened in between.
At the invitation of the Cork Branch of the Royal British Legion, the Bishop of Cork, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, delivered an oration at the Cork War Memorial, South Mall, Cork on Sunday, 13th November. The occasion was Remembrance Sunday in this centenary year of the Battle of the Somme.
Rev Terence P. Kerr has been instituted as Incumbent of the Grouped Parishes of Maghera and Killelagh by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Rt Rev Ken Good.
A Requiem Eucharist and Thanksgiving for the life of Herbert Calvert was held on 9th November 2016, in Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork. Herbert, who died in the care of Saint Luke’s Home, Cork on Wednesday, 2nd November, served the Church of Ireland faithfully as a Diocesan Lay Reader since he was first licensed in the Diocese of Elphin on 2nd September 1962.
Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise (the Irish Guild of the Church), in conjunction with Pobal an Aifrinn, organised a Reflective Service at Oireachtas na Samhna, a major festival of Irish language, music and dance.
