Patsy McGarry

Patsy McGarry

Contributor

Patsy McGarry is a contributor to The Irish Times having spent over 25 years as the paper's Religious Affairs Correspondent. He previously reported for Magill magazine, the Irish Press, the Irish Independent and the Sunday Independent. He is the author of First Citizen: Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency.

Dublin cathedral to close for two years for €25m refurbishment

St Mary’s was designated a cathedral by Pope Leo last year on its 200th anniversary

Record number of people convert to Catholicism in Archdiocese of Dublin

St Mary’s Cathedral welcomes 129 at this year’s ceremony, up from 14 converts in 2022

In a Word ... Word

More exciting news about double consonants and double vowels - I really should get out more

Devotees mark start of Lent and Ramadan

It is Lent, Ramadan, and the Chinese Year of the Horse

Spare us all those wasteful double consonants (Troy Parrott excepted)

In a Word: Consonsants

In the wake of internal dispute and reorganisation, Dublin’s Clonskeagh mosque reopens

Koranic school at Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland will remain closed for foreseeable future

A packed Ambassador laughing as Ali McGraw died in Love Story. Ah, those were the days

In a Word ... Retreat

Pope apologises to Blackrock College abuse survivors David Ryan and his late brother Mark

‘What stood out was his sincerity, his empathy,’ says Ryan, who was abused as a child

David Ryan’s papal audience followed participation in 2022 radio documentary

Blackrock Boys broadcast led to hundreds of testimonies involving some of State’s best known schools

Brigitte Macron is in breach of the seemingly last taboo

In a Word ... Calumny

Some Catholic teaching is ‘rancid’ and needs updating, says Mary McAleese

A bunch of celibate male bishops will not make required changes, says former president

Abuse survivor David Ryan to put ‘tough questions’ to Pope Leo XIV during private audience

Former Blackrock College pupil says he intends to ask ‘tough questions about how the Catholic Church pushed the abuse issue under the carpet for so long’

Keith and Mick, 82; Ringo, 85; Iggy, 78. So much for the warnings about rock’n’roll

In a Word ... Distraught

Ireland’s largest mosque to reopen in time for Ramadan after nine-month hiatus

Judge recuses himself in court case related to Islamic Cultural Centre’s operator

In a Word ... Killeagh

Even in St Peter’s Square, the town was the first thing that came to mind when I met those nice people from Cork

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