by Tony Bolger | 3 May, 2018 | Catholic Ireland, Uncategorized
The 30th Famine Walk will take place this year on 19 May. The annual commemoration of the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1850 involves a walk from Delphi Lodge, Doolough to Louisburgh in Co. Mayo, on the same route on which hundreds died. “It is very significant and was...
by Tony Bolger | 1 May, 2018 | Catholic Ireland, Uncategorized
An Irish Columban missionary who was shot and wounded in both of his legs by three armed men at his residence in Peru tackled his attackers in a bid to save his parish workers’ wages. The gun attack on 73-year-old Fr Gerard Desmond occurred on Saturday after the...
by Tony Bolger | 1 May, 2018 | Catholic Ireland, Uncategorized
The Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Stephen Keary, joined the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo and Bishop Brendan Leahy on Monday at the unveiling of a new memorial to Pope St John Paul II. The memorial, which is located on Bishop’s Quay overlooking the Shannon,...