The evening will include dinner, a raffle, a band and DJ and an opportunity to meet many new people from across Ireland.

But numbers of couples getting married are down, says chief matchmaker, Leona Connery.

Pope Francis is challenging us to see a preparation course as merely one part of a programme that ultimately needs to be parish-based: Accord president Bishop Denis Nulty.

Bishop Denis Nulty, president of Accord, will release the Catholic Marriage Care Service’s 2016 figures for marriage preparation and marriage and relationship counselling.

World meeting of Families 2018 offers free ‘gift vouchers’ to help you make a gift of yourself and enrich your love on Saint Valentine’s Day (14 February) .

“The release of this new prayer aims to remind everyone that God has a loving plan for each one of us and that there is always reason to be hope-filled.”

Young woman donated her kidney to young man she never met and now they are engaged and expecting their first child.