Bishop says it does not make any sense for Christians to vote for candidates or parties whose policies are at odds with Christian values.

Public discourse and the media in Ireland have become “coarse” in recent years warns Fr Tony Flannery.

Centre has cost the Order €500,000 over the past three years to keep open and this level of funding cannot be sustained into the future.

2016 commemorations have the potential to stimulate much-needed reflection on where we are as a society and what we want to achieve for the future.

"We remember the fallen and are still numbed by recollection of the scale of the human loss the conflict engendered: almost 1 million soldiers died in the Battle of Verdun."

"Though Mandela was not a Catholic, much of what he did and stood for is very much in line with Catholic Social Teaching," Archbishop of Durban states.