Fainche Ryan
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Catholic church: ‘Good Riddance or Good Influence?’
- Religion & Beliefs
- June 16, 2016, 13:46
Whether the Catholic Church has any role in an increasingly pluralist Ireland will be discussed at a three-day international conference in Trinity Col(...)

Rite & Reason: A living, breathing liturgical community is ‘buried alive’ in Dublin
- Opinion
- February 16, 2016, 01:33
‘It’s like a big funeral,” one woman was quoted as saying in The Irish Times. Indeed she was right. It was a big funeral, a heartbreaking one, at whic(...)

The Book of Kells: ‘The most purely Irish thing we have’ – James Joyce
- Opinion
- April 1, 2015, 00:01
The Book of Kells, housed in the Trinity College library, is a fascinating manuscript. It is first and foremost a Book of the Gospels. When you look a(...)

Why do relics, which featured in the papal canonisations, play a key role in church?
- Religion & Beliefs
- April 29, 2014, 00:01
In 2001 the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux were brought to Ireland, thousands flocked to see them and to pray. Since then we have had scandal (...)

TV Review: Browne challenges God – and bores his viewers. Meanwhile, Southcliffe is chillingly on target
- Culture
- August 10, 2013, 01:00
For its first serious foray into religious programming, TV3 went old school. None of your Kumbaya guitar strumming or soft explorations about the mean(...)