Eamonn Casey

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The former Bishop of Galway, Dr Eamonn Casey, at his home in Shanaglish. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
The beginning of the fall of the Catholic Church in Ireland

The new Bishop of Galway Michael Duignan (51) spoke with disarming frankness at his installation in the Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and (...)

Fintan O’Toole (centre) as a boy
Fintan O’Toole: My personal history of modern Ireland

'There has been no straight flight path from the poor and benighted Ireland of the 1950s to... shiny modernity': Fintan O'Toole looks at the story&(...)

Gay Byrne and his wife, Kathleen Watkins in 1993
Was Gay Byrne a feminist?

Was Gay Byrne a feminist? It was his fellow RTÉ presenter, Miriam O’Callaghan, who put this intriguing theory before the nation on Tuesday night, dur(...)

Dublin’s Westin Hotel has added 19 new double bedrooms.
Sunny times for Dublin hotels, despite global clouds gathering

A €5.5 million investment by the owners of the five-star Westin Hotel in the centre of Dublin has added 19 smart new double bedrooms and expanded its (...)

Eamonn Casey, general manager of the Westin Dublin, in one of the new bedrooms. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Rooms with a view: Westin goes big on comfort and privacy

The five-star Westin Hotel in Dublin has added 19 new double rooms above the neighbouring AIB branch on Westmoreland Street as part of a €5.5 million (...)

Former Bishop of Kerry Eamonn Casey, photographed in his home in Surrey in south east England in 1999.
Allegation of historical abuse against Eamonn Casey confirmed by Kerry diocese

The Diocese of Kerry has confirmed that it received one “historical concern” regarding abuse of a child by its former Bishop Eamonn Casey. “This inf(...)

Bishop Eamon Casey in 2010. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Bishop Eamonn Casey accused of sexually abusing three women as children

Three women made allegations that they were sexually abused as children by former Bishop of Galway the late Eamonn Casey and two have received compens(...)

Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917 - 1980) at home in San Salvador in November 1979. Photograph: Alex Bowie/Getty
Oscar Romero: one-time conservative who became a nation's social martyr

There is something about the murder of a priest saying Mass that has always stirred the Christian imagination. The priest is then at his most vulnerab(...)

The choir of St John the Baptist Catholic church in Killeagh, Co Cork, which will sing at the World Meeting of Families. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Mass-goers tell Pope Francis: ‘Rock the boat, your holiness’

At Mass in St Matthew’s church in Ballyfermot, Dublin, Fr Joe McDonald is criticising homophobia within the church. He jokes about people who have ask(...)

In January, UK prime minister Theresa May confirms Britain will leave the single market after Brexit. Controls on the Border appear likely to return. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
A month-by-month look back at 2017 in Ireland

JANUARY Martin McGuinness resigns as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland following a “cash-for-ash” scandal involving first minister Arlene Fo(...)

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