“It will be impossible for us to hold on to the ways we lived parish in the past. The parishes of tomorrow will be ‘communities of intentional disciples’ sustained by committed and formed lay people.”

Co Kerry priest translated and edited the first modern Irish Catholic Bible – a year before the English version was completed in the early 1970s.

Since 2008, 340 religion teachers have graduated from St Patrick's College which up to 1992 served as a seminary for the training of priests.

Columban priest Fr Noel O’Neill from Limerick awarded the Manhae international award for his work helping people with special needs.

Kildare & Leighlin to produce a definitive set of norms and guidelines on best practice for funeral liturgies by November 2015.

Claims of at least two miraculous cures linked to Bradburne.

Nobel Laureate's funeral Mass in Dublin followed by burial in Bellaghy cemetery in Derry.

He was "at heart a quiet Irish man who wrote our story without rhetoric.”