Call for global inquiry into Church abuses after Pope’s apology to Ireland
ISLAM’S Prophet Muham-mad and depictions of the faith were discussed at a Dublin conference last weekend.
CULTURAL and religious issues surrounding end-of-life care for immigrants and Irish people are increasingly arising, according to the Irish Hospice Foundation. Paul Murray, communications officer with the body, told Metro Éireann that cultural
IRELAND’S ECONOMIC downturn has seen hundreds of immigrants access a scheme to voluntarily return home instead of being deported.
The first visa ever issued by post-soviet Lithuania was returned to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a ceremony in Vilnius recently.
Although I agreed with President Obama that trying terrorism suspects in civilian courts would be a symbol of America’s commitment to the rule of law, doing this isn’t possible as long as so many Americans remain fearful. But should they be?
With Ireland and South Korea connected through a working holiday programme, ANDREW FARRELL gives the lowdown on one of Asia’s most technologically advanced countries
Given the plethora of scandals surrounding clerical sex abuse in Ireland, stretching right back to the foundation of the State, is it not time we came to terms with the Catholic Church in Ireland? Shouldn’t we overcome the appalling legacy of this institution?
De réir fóinsí oifigiúila d’fheallmharaigh ETA póilín francach le déanaí. Dúirt uachtarán na Fraince Nicolas Sarkozy an lá ina dhiaidh sin go raibh an grúpa ETA taobh
The news that thousands of women living in makeshift camps in earthquake-stricken Haiti are threatened by serious sexual violence is no surprise to many. But what is baffling is how the authorities seem unable to protect them.
Ireland’s animal abuse community came to protest at the Green Party convention in Waterford last weekend.
Life in Ireland with DJ Ram IN 1987 I started working as a chef in a few places in Dublin like The Cedar Tree, a Lebanese restaurant in the centre of town, and then at Wolfman Jack’s in Rathmines, an American-style steakhouse and burger bar.
Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, is quoted as saying: “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future: concentrate the mind on the present moment.” But right now in Ireland, practicing what he once preached is extremely difficult
Libya’s leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi made headlines recently when he called for the partitioning of Nigeria as an answer to solving the unrest between its Christian and Muslim populations.
Sheikh Shaheed @Large Double standards abound when it comes to dealing with the state of Israel. Indeed, it boggles the mind to see what she gets away with most of the time.
Chapter Seven Looking back a few hours later, Felicja wondered if she had actually witnessed what she knew she had witnessed.