"I would not like to be celebrating Mass on my own and I have never had to do it in my 45 years as a priest," says Meath parish priest.
"When Brian only gave me one point, everybody around him was booing, booing, booing," says Fr Ray, shrugging of record-breaking low score.
“How did we get from the sacraments to the Samba?” asked Ryan Tubridy.
Púca invokes "all the old pagan gods that were here in Ireland... Why would we have a festival like that after St Patrick brought the Catholic faith?”
“We’ll just keep persevering in fighting for the right to life of the unborn just as people on the pro choice side didn’t give up when they lost 2 to 1 in 1983,” says David Quinn.
“Working to address your issues from a stable home with the help of a highly skilled, professional multi-disciplinary team is much more successful than trying to do so from a congregated setting like emergency homeless accommodation or living rough on the streets.”
“There continues to be a surge in people who desperately need help with housing. Additional housing must be delivered at a more accelerated rate."
“It is a time of blessing and grace for our entire diocese.”
“As I begin my new ministry as Bishop of Meath, pray with me that all who minister in this diocese will treasure and foster that sense of joy that transcends our own worries, failings and shortcomings, and enables us to reach out to others.”
The man to be the next Bishop of Meath, Tom Deenihan, has a wealth of experience in the field of education, having been a teacher, a diocesan education secretary and general secretary of the Catholic Primary School Managers Association.
“I would like to be the first singing priest to win,” says clerical crooner Fr Ray Kelly.
Words alone are not enough - love has to show itself in action. That is the vocation of everyone, particularly of the bishop. - Dermot Farrell on his first day as Bishop of Ossory
Diocese of Ossory tops financial transparency survey, but 62 per cent of Irish dioceses post no financial statements on their websites, We Are Church Ireland finds.
“When I was there last year I met this family where the nine-year-old son, who has four sisters and a mother, is the man of the house because the husband got killed in the war.”
Larry & Martina Hayes and Lorna Carty were “among those whose lives were stolen from them in a mindless act of violence" - Bishop Doran.
The sixth century saint is remembered as one of the greatest of the Irish missionary monks and revered across parts of Europe.
Good Friday collection supports the Holy Land shrines connected with the life of Jesus as well as for providing pastoral care to the region's Catholics.
At their peak, the PBVM's schools in the town were catering for 1,000 pupils.
Parish priest Fr John Brogan overcome as Pope imparts blessing following beatification ceremony of Blessed Paul VI.
Cathedral of Christ the King marks 75th anniversary with day of jubilations.
There is no scarcity of martyrs in the Church of our time - Bishop Michael Smith of Meath.
Reviews praise progress made in dioceses of Cloyne, Dublin, Killaloe and Meath.
Victims endured "horror and barbarity" Bishop Smith states at Co Meath prayer ceremony.
Concern over how easily greed, self-interest and corruption took hold in the lives of so many and left the country with enormous debts.
A “new chapter in the ancient story” of Kildare and Leighlin Mgr Brendan Byrne declares.
