Patrick Comerford

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Graves of those who died at the Bethany home, in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Photograph: Alan Betson
Church of Ireland to seek correction of ‘factually inaccurate’ commission report

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(...)

A man lays flowers this week at a shrine in Tuam, Co Galway, erected in memory of up to 800 children buried at the site of the mother and baby home there. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty
Women and children in mother and baby homes ‘abandoned by church’

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(...)

The bomb fell on Nagasaki just 20 years after Urakami Cathedral had been completed. It has since been rebuilt and a small piece of that history was returned last year: a cross.
Seventy-five years after Hiroshima, we still face the threat of nuclear destruction

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(...)

Pictured at the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual Hiroshima Day commemoration at Merrion Square, Dublin were anti-war protesters and retired US servicemen Tarak Kauff and Ken Mayers. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/ The Irish Times
Hiroshima Day: Trump’s boosting of nuclear arsenal condemned

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(...)

Fred Deane, caretaker at St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church

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 (...)

The Government is committed to early ratification, and, despite Brexit consuming so much of the department’s time and resources, negatively, I hope in a very positive way this treaty can be ratified by Ireland before the end of the year.’ File photograph: Sara Freund/The Irish Times: ‘
US military flights through Shannon would be ‘illegal’ under new anti-nuclear treaty

It would be illegal for most American military flights to pass through Shannon airport under a new international nuclear weapons treaty which the Gove(...)

Two Church of Ireland bishops’ attendance at Gafcon has been described as “an absolute disgrace”. Photograph: iStock
Bishops’ presence at Gafcon an ‘absolute disgrace’

Attendance by two Church of Ireland bishops at the conservative Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) meeting in Jerusalem last week has provoked(...)

Mari Miyoshi, Jaapanese Ambassador to Ireland, Rev Patrick Comerford, president Irish CND Mary Freehill repressenting the Lord Mayor of Dublin and David Hutchinson Edgar, chair CND Ireland.Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Hiroshima bombing victims remembered in Dublin

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

Rubicon is a yearly, boutique, conference that gathers to intentionally collaborate and explore ideas about how faith can be expressed within our cult(...)

Rev Patrick Comerford speaks at a ceremony to commemorate the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing victims in Merrion Square in Dublin. Photograph: Sara Freund/The Irish Times
Government urged to lead campaign against nuclear weapons

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 (...)

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