Patrick Comerford
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Church of Ireland to seek correction of ‘factually inaccurate’ commission report
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 18, 2021, 20:19
The Irish Church Missions (ICM) has said it “did not found, manage or finance any mother and baby homes”, after the Commission of Investigation into M(...)

Women and children in mother and baby homes ‘abandoned by church’
- Social Affairs
- January 17, 2021, 22:01
The women and children who suffered in mother and baby homes were “abandoned by their church”, a Cork priest has said during Sunday Mass. Fr Colin D(...)

Seventy-five years after Hiroshima, we still face the threat of nuclear destruction
- Opinion
- August 4, 2020, 01:00
Over the next week, two anniversaries recall cataclysmic events in the closing days of the second World War: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on Augus(...)

Hiroshima Day: Trump’s boosting of nuclear arsenal condemned
- Religion & Beliefs
- August 6, 2019, 15:47
US President Donald Trump’s “passive encouragement of violence is insidious and is eating away at the fabric of decency throughout the world,” the ann(...)

Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church
- Religion & Beliefs
- July 29, 2019, 01:00
Standing before the impressive Neo-Romanesque doorway of St Ann’s Church of Ireland on Dublin’s Dawson Street, Fred Deane is handing out leaflets for (...)

US military flights through Shannon would be ‘illegal’ under new anti-nuclear treaty
- Irish News
- August 6, 2018, 16:50
It would be illegal for most American military flights to pass through Shannon airport under a new international nuclear weapons treaty which the Gove(...)

Bishops’ presence at Gafcon an ‘absolute disgrace’
- Religion & Beliefs
- June 24, 2018, 20:40
Attendance by two Church of Ireland bishops at the conservative Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) meeting in Jerusalem last week has provoked(...)

Hiroshima bombing victims remembered in Dublin
- Irish News
- August 6, 2016, 19:42
More than seven decades since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima people are still attempting to cope with its legacy and health consequences, th(...)
Church of Ireland notes
- Religion & Beliefs
- April 2, 2016, 00:00
Rubicon is a yearly, boutique, conference that gathers to intentionally collaborate and explore ideas about how faith can be expressed within our cult(...)

Government urged to lead campaign against nuclear weapons
- Irish News
- August 6, 2015, 19:07
The Government has been urged to take a lead role in an international campaign to ban nuclear weapons. Speaking at a memorial for the victims of the (...)