Our Lady’s, Templemore (Tipperary) 0-24 Kilkenny CBS 2-15: Our Lady’s Templemore manager Tom Byrnes is relishing a crack at competition kingpins St Kieran’s in the Croke Cup final on Saturday week.

With requests for exorcism on the rise, Louise Roseingrave looks back at an incident in Inchigeela, Co Cork, 30 years ago.

It is 30 years since the first statue appeared to move in Ballinspittle, but it was to become a summer of such phenomena, writes Eddie Cassidy

A Kerry-born nun who spent her life helping people affected by addiction found she could not rest easy in her bed in Dublin last weekend, knowing there were homeless people lying on the ground outside.

From the gold laden glitter of an Aztec headdress adorning Miss Honduras to the perky buzby sported by Miss Great Britain and the fearsome Celtic warrior floated on stage by Ireland’s Lisa Madden, the national costume show was all about pride of place during the 63rd annual Miss Universe Competition at Florida International University in Miami.

With more than 150,000 pilgrims expected to attend the Knock Novena, Micheal Kelly reflects on the enduring draw of the Mayo shrine.

There are growing security fears for Pope Francis after a pipe bomb was detonated at a site he is due to visit today and frenzied crowds of Roman Catholics mobbed the car carrying him after it took a wrong turn down a street in Rio’s centre.

THE voice was an eerie guttural, horrible sound, ferociously angry.

Everyone has a “Páidí story” and they came yesterday as fast as the man himself ever ran around Croke Park.

RELIGIOUS protesters prayed at the gates of University College Cork (UCC) for the second day in a row yesterday as a controversial image of “Our Lady of Guadalupe” went on display on campus.

THE artist who created the controversial image of Our Lady hit back at critics last night as religious protesters picketed outside University College Cork (UCC).

MEXICAN-BORN artist Alma Lopez arrived in Ireland for the first time yesterday to be greeted with a storm of protest and controversy.

MAY I please address UCC’s decision to host an exhibit that insults Our Lady this weekend.

IT WAS supposed to be a small academic conference at University College Cork (UCC) with four guest speakers exploring various aspects of Chicano, or Mexican American culture.

TEACHERS and students in St Munchin’s College, Limerick, have rallied around sick children and adults to raise funds for three charitable causes.

SELF-PROCLAIMED visionary Joe Coleman was prevented from entering the Apparition Church in Knock for his predicted visitation by Our Lady at 2pm.

ONE of the world’s most famous broadcasters drew a “Blankety Blank” yesterday while seeking apparitions in Co Cork.

HUNDREDS of people have been flocking to a house in a Paris suburb over recent weeks to see an icon of the Virgin Mary “shed tears of oil”, according to the owner.

Thousands of people are expected at Knock shrine in Co Mayo this afternoon to witness a hoped-for apparition of Our Lady.

THE Church has said the faithful are in danger of being misled by recent claims of apparitions at the Knock Shrine.

The Archbishop of Tuam has criticised those who have been predicting that Our Lady will appear at Knock Shrine in Co. Mayo.

THE Rathkeale tree stump which some people claim projects the image of Our Lady is losing its drawing powers.

MARGARET SHERIDAN, one of the hundreds who yesterday visited the willow tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which many claim projects the image of Our Lady, said it has worked a miracle of sorts for her husband, Dan, who is on dialysis.

A Cork woman who told gardaí she killed her daughter because Our Lady told her to has been found not guilty by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Cork woman has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of killing her daughter at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Cork woman accused of killing her daughter suffers from paranoid schizophrenia with very fixed delusions, the Central Criminal Court heard today

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ALL hell is breaking loose in Medjugorje following the Pope’s crackdown on the world’s largest illicit Catholic shrine.

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FINISHING touches were being put to the restoration of one of the country’s oldest religious statues which was badly damaged by drunks nine months ago.

INDEPENDENT European candidate Kathy Sinnott launched her campaign in the South constituency last night with the prediction she could win a seat.

FACED with a crisis in vocations, falling church attendance and a society now floundering in a spiritual vacuum, we are approaching make-your-mind-up time both for the laity and the religious of the Catholic Church.

GROWING up in the 1950s one often heard rantings from the pulpit about slave labour camps in atheistic Russia.

AROUND 4,000 pilgrims crossed the bridge to Achill Island yesterday for the tenth anniversary of Christina Gallagher’s House of Prayer.

THIS is the price of skimping on essential health services.

Around 5,000 pilgrims have flocked to Achill Island today to hear a self-styled visionary warn of impending calamities allegedly revealed to her by the Virgin Mary.

Thousands of people have descended on Achill Island in Co Mayo.