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.

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70 years of ministry

Why no rush to claim Donald Trump as Irish?

In a Word ... Ancestry

Whenever I return from the seemingly eternal wintry waterfall outside, I refuse to shower again

In a Word ... Shower

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Rite & Reason: As we saw on this island, differences between denominations can soon wander beyond religion into the political

Cistercian monks to leave Roscrea and move to Mellifont in Co Louth

Monks will continue as patrons of Mount St Joseph College

Ireland among most religious countries in western Europe, survey published by bishops finds

Republic has one of the lowest proportions of adults reporting they had no religion, at 32 per cent

Ireland’s Jewish Council reports 143 anti-Semitic incidents in six-month period

Body expresses ‘deep concern’ and urges ‘rapid development of dedicated national plan to counter growing antisemitism’

A word on the sport Éamon de Valera said was best suited to the Irish psyche

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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

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In a Word ... Retreat

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