Victory for Galway in the quarter-final group stage, their opening game of the Championship, looked all but certain when they led by a whopping 12 points close to half-time.

Fianna Fail party leader, Micheál Martin, has accused An Post of making a strategic mistake following their decision to close the Little Island Mail Centre in Co Cork with the loss of 216 jobs.

Other sorting centres to remain open as An Post cites €11m saving

Perhaps the oddest bit of GAA friction in 2018 arose when the Galway minor football manager got irked by dual player issues, writes PM O’Sullivan

The Irish Examiner ICMSA Farming Poll has brought to light the latest views and opinions on religion and the priesthood among the farming community, reports Noel Baker.

The Irish Examiner ICMSA Farming Poll has brought to light the latest views and opinions on religion and the priesthood among the farming community, reports Noel Baker

Postal services have suffered serious disruption after an official strike by subcontractors responsible for maintenance of the automated sorting systems at An Post’s four main mail centres.

Priests have welcomed a letter from Pope Francis which allows them discretion to formally forgive women who have had abortions.

An Irish priest has said he disagrees with the comments of a high-ranking Vatican official who described last week’s marriage equality referendum result as a “defeat for humanity”.

The Association of Catholic Priests has decided not to make a recommendation for or against the proposal in the upcoming marriage referendum on May 22.

The Association of Catholic Priests has said that an American cardinal who blamed “radical feminism” for paedophile priests and the fall in the number of men joining the priesthood has “little to offer” in the debate on women’s place within the Church.

The Labour Court has summoned Iarnród Éireann and its unions to talks on how to achieve up to €8.5m in savings.

A trade union representing workers at Eircom and An Post is sending tens of thousands of flyers to Eircom’s customers asking them to voice their opposition to the ending of paper billing.

Parents spent an average of €713 on their child’s First Holy Communion this year, while children received an average of €521 in spending money.

Individual priests should start talking about reforming communion and confirmation ceremonies because the Church hierarchy is unlikely to do it for them.

On Friday, Nov 29, Judge Donogh McDonagh, instructed a jury to find Sr. Mary Theresa Grogan not guilty on all charges of indecent assault brought against her by seven complainants.

Dan MacCarthy wonders if it’s time the effigy burning in Sussex on Guy Fawkes night next Monday was consigned to the past

Changes to college entry requirements could get more students performing better in Leaving Certificate maths and help improve Ireland’s competitiveness, education experts have told a key economic advisory group.

Priests simply cannot reveal what was said to them by penitents, writes Fr Seán McDonagh

On Mar 12 in the Examiner I read with great interest Fr Sean McDonagh’s comments in Dan Buckley’s article and also Very Rev Joseph McGuane’s comments in Letters.

What the survey reveals is a serious and growing divergence between orthodox Catholic Church teaching emanating from Rome and what the faithful in Ireland actually believe.

The Association of Catholic Priests has said it does not expect members of the Irish hierarchy to comment on the silencing by the Vatican of one of the group’s founders, Fr Tony Flannery.

If similar surveys were undertaken in other countries, the results would be pretty much the same, writes Fr Seán McDonagh

Catholic priests in Ireland were treated like imbeciles during a Vatican probe into the clerical child abuse crisis that rocked the country, it has been claimed.

New research shows that the vast majority of Irish Catholics believe priests should be allowed to marry.

A senior Irish cleric has launched a broadside at Pope Benedict XVI and his senior advisers, accusing them of attempting to row back on Catholic Church reforms initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II.

Eight out of 10 priests believe they should be allowed to marry.

A PRIEST at the centre of abuse allegations has refused to leave his parochial house in a diocese praised for having the best child protection measures in the country.

A priest at the centre of abuse allegations has refused to leave his parochial house in a diocese recently praised for having the best child protection measures in the country.

FR Sean McDonagh (Letters, Dec 3) rightly calls for the media to be held accountable.

IN her column, Colette Browne (Opinion, Nov 30) writes that “perhaps members of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) who have been screaming bias at every available opportunity since the sorry episode first came to light, would like the entire board of RTÉ to commit hari-kari as a token of their sorrow”.

The strongest indication yet of how much compensation Fr Kevin Reynolds is entitled to from RTÉ has been given by the Association of Catholic Priests this afternoon.

The Association of Catholic Priests wants a statutory inquiry to be set up, in addition to the independent inquiry confirmed by Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte.

THE Association of Catholic Priests has called on RTÉ to explain why it proceeded with a defamatory broadcast against Galway-based priest Fr Kevin Reynolds despite the priest’s constant denials of sexual abuse.

The parish priest of Ahascaragh in Co Galway has accepted undisclosed damages from RTE after the broadcaster admitted "grossly defaming him".

RUAIRÍ QUINN wants to see half of the schools currently under church patronage moved to an alternative guardianship. If promoting pluralism is one of the reasons for this change, then that logic should operate in other spheres, especially in the political arena.

THE Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) has hit out at the decision by bishops to press ahead with the introduction of a new translation of the missal which it described as “unnecessary” and “unusable”.

SINCE the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, a huge amount of media attention has been focused on the collapse of other financial institutions as well as the perilous state of the public finances in many countries.

MEMBERS of the clergy are being actively canvassed around the country by a group of priests disillusioned at not having a public voice. They are seeking to set up an association to represent their views.

WHEN Pope Benedict XVI speaks on issues of sexual morality sections of the media go into a feeding frenzy, which is usually very disparaging.

WHEN Pope Benedict XVI speaks on issues of sexual morality sections of the media go into a feeding frenzy, which is usually very disparaging.

YOUR report headlined ‘FF TDs support GM crops despite Government line’ (July 3) highlights how the disease of amnesia often strikes our politicians.

Richard Collins reviews a book on climate change