Someone said to me recently, ‘Do you regret that there’s no Mrs Joe?’ and I said to them, ‘Well, she had a lucky escape. I ...

The next pontiff must continue the ‘revolution’ started by Pope Francis, a group of Irish priests seeking reform of the ...

IRISH society has completely transformed over the past 40 years. Now, a new homegrown film, which opened in cinemas ...

Such success was not preordained. Even Ardal O’Hanlon, who played Fr Dougal McGuire, had doubts about a sitcom featuring three Irish priests banished to the godforsaken parish of Craggy Island ...

Fr Tim Hazelwood, a parish priest in Co Cork, told the Irish Independent that letters, some of them anonymous, are being lodged in bishops’ files on priests even if the complaints they contain ...

A priest who helped organise the Pope Francis’s historic visit to Ireland has recalled watching the pontiff compose his ...

When The Confessors aired on RTÉ in October 2020, it featured Irish priests talking about confession and their experiences over the years. Met with critical acclaim at the time, Clare-born Fr ...