The Church and Society Commission of the Church of Ireland organised an information event on homelessness in Northern Ireland yesterday (Wednesday) at the Skainos Centre in East Belfast.
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.
Church leaders met members of the Panel on Disbanding Paramilitary Groups in Belfast today (27th April).
A special service commemorating all who lost their lives in the 1916 Rising took place in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, on the 100th anniversary of the Rising.
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.
The Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, Archbishop of Armagh, preached the sermon at a special service to mark the centenary of the events of Easter 1916 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, this afternoon. His theme was ‘Generous remembering, generous envisioning’.
The following sermon was preached by the Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Revd John McDowell, during the service to celebrate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, at St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, on 21 April 2016.
