William 'Willie' Harrington, who has died aged 84, was a well-known character and artist around Cork city. Fiercely ...

Julia is just one of Broderick’s melancholy outcasts – the product of an imagination that dwelled determinedly on the fringes. He wrote twelve novels, as well as reviewing regularly for the Irish ...

Way back in 1963 I had returned to St. Patrick’s Seminary in Carlow from my Christmas vacation at my home in Ballina, Co.

These days, there remains a scattering of Irish missionaries in these far-flung places because, as vocations declined at home, so too has the level of volunteers prepared to devote their lives to the ...

Fr Jaison Kuthanpillil took something of a leap of faith when he arrived in Moate on February 29, 2008, but he now considers the Westmeath town to be like another home.