Co Down native takes up role as principal of St Mary's University College Strawberry Hill.
Bishop Jones expresses regret as cuts to Family Support Agency grants blamed.
Calls expected to surge over Christmas as organisations and services close.
UN base in Jonglei state besieged as five days of violence leaves over 500 dead.
Concern over "recent violent threats to public safety and security on our streets."
Homeless Act would give homeless a legal right to suitable accommodation.
CofI Archbishop and Chairman for the CSP cite constitutional right to freedom of religion.
Social Justice Ireland criticises Government’s Medium-Term Economic Strategy.
Students from 22 schools fast for SHARE (Students Harness Aid for the Relief of the Elderly).
Thames voyage to highlight plight of migrants who perish on dangerous journeys.
Talks continue over 12 nuns kidnapped on 6 December.
Actor makes massive personal donation as donations slump in the wake of CRC scandal.
Annual charity appeal to be launched by the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
Trade unions urge Government to make €10 million available for food assistance.
“Bailouts can come and go, but our future is in our young people and we are failing them.”
Tens of thousands seeking safety in churches and other places of worship.
Bishop Eamonn Walsh to lead re-opening Mass after €4.1m restoration project.
“We archbishops and our communities face the challenge of re-reading history together."
Twenty-five metre Christmas tree gifted by Bavarian town to Vatican City.
"We must discover ways and structures to do so," Bishop Brendan Leahy suggests.
“Neither a laudable pioneering move nor an act of humanity, but a sad declaration of bankruptcy.”
Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin expresses solidarity with Islamic community.
Pontiff warns of “tragic phenomenon” of human trafficking, in which the “unscrupulous prey on the lives and the desperation of others.”
Positive feedback and 5,000 hits in just twelve days.
'Pope Francis effect' results in marked upsurge in interest in the papacy in 2013.
"The speed with which he has captured the imaginations of millions who had given up on hoping for the church at all."
One month on from Typhoon Haiyan, close to 2,000 are still missing, and 5,670 are recorded dead.
Public urged to remember older people in need at this time of year.
Concern over shortcomings on the part of the Kiltegan Fathers and massive number of allegations against Christian Brothers.
"It is fitting that a report which sought to attack the most basic human right - the right to life - was rejected" says PLC.
