President McAleese attends service in Pro Cathedral

President Mary McAleese will be one of the participants at religious celebrations in St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin this morning.

The Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin will celebrate mass in Irish at 10am.

A St Patrick's Day message from the Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady is available on catholicbishops.ie.

A special service will also take place at 10.45am at St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, where Ireland's patron saint is reputed to have baptised converts from paganism to Christianity.