This year’s Chief Brehon of the Great Irish Fair, Bob Benya, couldn’t be a more deserving choice. Benya, the president and CEO of iNDEMAND Networks, has thrived on his Irish upbringing and Catholic education. He’s originally from Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan but has lived the past 20-plus years in Breezy Point. Benya’s great grandparents were […]
by Michael Kelly DUBLIN (CNS) – The church in Ireland is on the path to renewal, church leaders told pilgrims at the opening Mass of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress June 10. Welcoming pilgrims from more than 120 countries at an open-air Mass, Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said, “The church in Ireland rejoices today in […]
IDUBLIN (CNS) – Ireland’s parliament rejected legislation that would have allowed a controversial 1992 Supreme Court ruling permitting abortion in limited circumstances to take effect. The Socialist Party motion was defeated 111-20, April 19. Following the 1992 court ruling – known as the X-case – abortion has been legal in circumstances where there is a […]
DUBLIN (CNS) – Ireland will close its Embassy to the Holy See in what has been described by officials as a cost-saving measure. Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said the move is not a result of a recent dispute between Ireland and the Vatican, which led Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, papal nuncio to Ireland, to be […]
