People were invited to send in requests to have a specific candle lit for their loved ones, and to pay their own tribute to so many on the front line serving their communities up and down the country.

The Church in Dublin will be enriched the more it welcomes the idealism and the generosity that are characteristic of the younger generation – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Cúnamh has facilitated 5,700 adoptions and 1,700 reunions between adopted persons and their birth relatives.

I am close to each family and the entire French nation which is in mourning, says Pope at Angelus.

Bishop reminds his priests "we were never promised a rose garden" and "rejection is often the fruit of fidelity".

“We will not heal those whose lives have drifted from Jesus Christ by throwing books of dogma at them," warns Archbishop Martin.

“Religious life is only authentic when it is marked by humility” - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Retired and semi-retired Religious have given “tremendous service to society and the Church.”