Former Irish Examiner Religious Affairs correspondent TP O’Mahony profiles the life of one of Ireland’s most controversial religious figures.

Hilary Fennell sits down this week with RTÉ Radio 1 ’Drivetime’ broadcaster, Mary Wilson, to chat about the wisdom she’s gained through her career.

A new initiative by the Pro-Life campaign has been launched in Dublin with smaller regional launches in Cork and Galway.

A new initiative by the Pro Life campaign has been launched in Dublin with smaller regional launches in Cork and Galway. 

The journalists at the Irish Press group were as hard drinking as they were hardworking. Sue Leonard hears many tall tales and true from David Kenny, who was there before its demise in 1995.  

A satirical musical based on the ‘contraception train’ of 1971 takes a lighthearted look at an era of great change in Ireland, writes Padraic Killeen.

The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, is right — the Catholic Church now needs to carry out a reality check, especially in regard to young people and their beliefs. And after the outcome of the referendum on same-sex marriage, he won’t find the result of such a check very comforting.

I have a memory of 1940, at the age of nine, in my hometown of Westport, going up James’ Street. Someone shouted "the Germans have landed in Achill, they will be here tomorrow." I felt stunned: the future in ruins, houses empty, a home no longer a home.

Some 20 years after predictions were made of a ‘Catholic restoration’, the Church finds itself lost in modern Ireland, writes TP O’Mahony

Celebrating ten years in existence, the Cork World Book Fest (April 22-26), organised by Cork City Library and Triskel Christchurch, is one of the city’s most popular cultural events.

SEVERAL days after 15-year-old Ann Lovett died in hospital, just hours after giving birth to a 6½lb baby boy found dead beside a Co Longford grotto, an anonymous caller phoned the Sunday Tribune newspaper to explain what had happened on that cold and dark winter afternoon on Jan 31, 1984 outside Granard.

SEX is for the young. That’s the message we are drip fed by the media.

ABOLISH the Seanad and shut down the best chance we have of making politics truly representative. A reformed Seanad could offer a door to public office for the dark side of the moon of Irish life: the people who don’t have jobs.

SEXTING is trouble — the tabloids are full of stories of the heartbreak caused by scrolling through a partner’s phone.

A history festival featuring singers and actors? Why not, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

Westmeath mammy of the nation Mary O’Rourke reads a lot of historical biography.

You’ve been with your husband or partner for years, gradually settling into a routine of sex once or twice a week — the all-night passion of the glory a distant memory — but lately he seems to want more and more sex.

Some leading female media figures have been lined up to take part in a new festival which will celebrate women’s contribution to the media in Ireland.

Affairs can lead to bitter fallout for all and regaining trust is not easy, writes Áilín Quinlan.

Friends Michael Collins and Harry Boland fought on opposite sides in the Civil War. They also wooed the same woman, says Richard Fitzpatrick

AN American woman named Anne-Marie Slaughter, first female director of policy planning at the State Department in the Obama administration, has gone and said it.

Columnist Mary Kenny’s call for an inquiry that categorises the abuse by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth will devastate victims and stop them getting help, child abuse survivor Marie Collins said.

Drink-fuelled encounters, girls roaming in packs, guys looking for a one-night stand — welcome to Singleton Ireland, says Áilín Quinlan

NOT so long ago, Mary Davis was the dark horse.

GARDAÍ are investigating three cases of alleged sexual exploitation of Irish children under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese yesterday presented 57 Gaisce gold awards to young adults from across the country for outstanding achievement either personally or on behalf of their communities.

IT seems to me the Civil Partnership Bill is a carbon copy of the strategy on divorce.

NEXT year Ireland will elect a new president, and I would very much like to make a policy point about this.

THEY kept it secret for 27 years, although everybody kind of knew.

I AM completing a book about the relationship between Ireland and the British monarchy, and I would be very grateful to hear from anyone with clear memories of how the abdication of Edward VIII in December 1936 and the coronation of George VI in 1937 were regarded in Ireland.

SHOPPERS are being targeted in a campaign by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to recruit foster carers.

A YOUNG mother yesterday rounded on Fianna Fáil TD Ivor Callely after her young children were canvassed by adults in teddy bear suits outside school gates.

A young mother today rounded on Fianna Fáil TD Ivor Callely after her young children were canvassed by adults in teddy bear suits outside school gates.

COMING up to an election, the question arises as to why women are so under-represented in the Dáil.

WELL done to Terry Prone (Irish Examiner, June 19) for exposing some of those arrogant women on the PR social circuit in the ’70s and ’80s.

BUBBLY Kathryn Thomas is the nation’s favourite woman presenter.

YOUGHAL rounded off 2004 with an inaugural award ceremony at the track recently.

RÓNÁN MULLEN, in his continuing rant on the perfidy of the Godless media, bemoans the lack of qualified commentators to write about religion in the Irish national dailies (The Irish Examiner, April 9).