THE payout last week by the Catholic Church in Ireland of quarter a million marks a new low in the matter of the abuse perpetrated by Brendan Smyth.
AT last someone in Glenree House has blown the whistle on what many of the staff believe to be an oppressive and bullying management ethos within the Department of Agriculture in Newry.
I FELT unclean this week speaking my customary greeting of salutation, that wonderful word of Hebrew origin, “Shalom”, used as a greeting of peace.
MAURICE Fitzpatrick and I stand at a frontier of Catholicism in the modern world.
SHALOM my friends. I am back in north west Nigeria.
COME with me into the gentle land of an early morning walk after a night of sharp frost in early May.
WHILE it is certain that the dumping of the Massforth baby bones occurred without the knowledge of the parish priest, the matter could have been better handled for, when you lose grieving parents and relatives and create anger in their hearts, you have done something wrong.
CARLINGFORD Lough is dead. All fish life has ended.
YOU constantly see the cheques being presented in support of the work of the Southern Area Hospice.
THIS is, in part, the story of Lundravar the Dragon, a fairytale written and illustrated by John Blakey.