Parishioners attending a picturesque Cork church have less than two weeks left to stop it becoming the first in the city to be forced to close due to a lack of vocations.

Clonfert has become the first West of Ireland diocese to “import” priests from Nigeria to take up ministry.

Walk into a cobbler’s shop and the fragrance overwhelms your entire being. It’s impossible not to drink it in, and soak it up. Just like the Championship.

One of the men knocked down by an out-of-control car was so covered in blood and dust the local parish priest couldn’t even recognise his friend.

The Israeli and Palestinian presidents are to pay a symbolic visit to the Vatican next month to pray for peace.

Murder victims Jack and Tommy Blaine’s cousin, Paul Dunne, talks about the men he knew so well

A seaside village will be “on song” next weekend as it hosts its first singing workshop weekend.

A priest has said there is no foundation to charges against the Irish nanny accused of assaulting a one-year-old baby, who later died.

Tom Cruise infuriated thousands of Londoners yesterday morning when he brought the heart of the city to a standstill so he could film his new movie.

In extracts from his new book, Bill O’Herlihy recalls his childhood in Cork, an Evening Echo secret, and why he has an eternal soft spot for both Dunphy and Giles

A shocked community will come to a standstill this morning to say farewell to the two little sisters who were killed in an horrific accident on Sunday.

For decades survivors of horrific abuse at our industrial schools have essentially been demeaned as ingrates, because they did not appreciate what the religious authorities running those schools did for them. All that many were asking for was the right to be heard and listened to when they spoke about their abuse.

MASS-GOERS in the Taoiseach’s home constituency of Castlebar had plenty of praise for him following his scathing attack on the Vatican this week.

Remarkable boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward says he wouldn’t change a thing about Mark Wahlberg’s portrayal of him in the biopic The Fighter. John Riordan met him in Massachusetts

“HER smile lit up a room. She was love personified. She radiated love in all directions. She made us better people.”

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin tonight rejected claims a Vatican summit to discuss clerical abuse scandals in Ireland was a wasted opportunity.

Families of IRA victims abducted and murdered during the conflict in the North are to march at Stormont tomorrow.

Gardaí in County Clare have arrested three men in connection with last night's fatal hit and run in the county.

A MASS grave containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in an underground prison north of the Afghan capital, the BBC reported last night.

TAXPAYER-funded late night “booze-buses” could be operating in rural areas by election day — but Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cuiv insists they are more likely to ferry people to Mass than the pub.

The family of Winnie Brady, who died while on a pilgrimage to Bosnia-Herzegovina last year, were today arranging to have her body returned to Ireland.

A publican wrongly arrested during a botched murder inquiry today claimed he was unable to visit his mother’s grave because of the shame gardaí had brought on his family.

DNA tests are to be carried out on the remains of a body recovered from the River Foyle more than 30 years ago to determine if it is that of missing teenager Gerard Slattery.

A convicted drug dealer is expected back behind bars tonight after getting temporary release over the weekend to run a 52-mile charity marathon.

A MASS German police raid on the premises of 19 football match-fixing suspects has uncovered more proof of manipulation, the Berlin public prosecutor’s office confirmed.

A post-mortem examination is being carried out in Belfast today on the body of pensioner Attracta Harron, found hidden near a stream.

THE home of a man questioned about the murder of a missing retired librarian in Northern Ireland has been searched.

The home of a man questioned today about the murder of a missing retired librarian in Northern Ireland has been searched.

INFORMATION on the location of nine people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA was given to the Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains.

THE Shannon Rescue helicopter and sniffer dogs yesterday joined gardaí and 100 local people in a search for an 80-year-old widow missing from her home near Newcastle West, Co Limerick.

SISTER PHILOMENA FOGARTY led a life of nobility, love and care. To have it end in such a brutal way is shocking, a close friend said yesterday.