Some 23 primary schools across the country are set to lose their Catholic Church patronage and will most likely transfer to the multi-denominational Educate Together schools.

A whopping 46 percent of people in full time employment in Ireland are considering emigrating, according to the latest study.

Stem Cell therapies offer a source of hope for many patients who otherwise have run out of options. However, lured by the promise of hope, many patients around the world have fallen victim to scam clinics.

It was all going so well wasn’t it? The power-sharing executive had not only succeeded in running the full term but also being re-elected with a strengthened mandate. So encouraging was the environment that it left room for old enemies to embrace as Martin McGuinness met Queen Elizabeth in June 2012 and Peter Robinson made major speeches arguing for a closer relationship with the Irish government along with seeking to encourage Catholics to vote for his Democratic Unionist Party. The Northern Ireland problem it appeared had been solved for good.

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/a-taste-of-ireland/nature-at-home---the-burren-flora-and-fauna-and-creating-a-educational-center-123807344.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/a-taste-of-ireland/nature-at-home---the-burren-flora-and-fauna-and-creating-a-educational-center-123807344.html Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:15:01 PDT  The four year old pony, Floyd, ended up going to his first show on Sunday He was third, in the pouring rain, which I was happy about as he was only ridden for the first time in January Here he is relaxing the day after (right)I lodged the planning application for the nature centre As I am an engineer I was able to draw up the plans myself and do all the surveying etc READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/finnegans_awake/has-ccd-failed-us-104096644.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/finnegans_awake/has-ccd-failed-us-104096644.html Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:30:18 PDT
The latest religious news this week is that, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, non-religious Americans know more about religion in general than self-identified Christians Even when corrections were made for disparities in intelligence and education levels, the statistics still bear out (You can test your own knowledge, or just check out the questions, here I got all the answers correct, but only because I had read about some of the questions in various news reports READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/finnegans_awake/catholics-can-lead-interfaith-education-102019608.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/finnegans_awake/catholics-can-lead-interfaith-education-102019608.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:15:13 PDT An article in this week's issue of Time magazine reports on how the Claremont School of Theology, formerly offering training for only Methodist seminarians, is transforming itself into an interfaith institution and will offer programs to train Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams alongside Christian ministers The school made this leap because its enrollment was foundering, and two years into the experiment, enrollment has increased While the ultimate success of the program will depend on how well its graduates are regarded and whether or not people continue to enroll, the fact that it has existed for two years tells us something - that understanding other religions does not have to dim the belief in one's ownA family friend of mine once told her young daughter, when she asked if there were other religions in the world aside from Catholicism, that there were not READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/culture-pop/the-legacy-of-phoebe-prince-bullying-and-blame-in-cyberspace-and-the-school-system-90094637.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/culture-pop/the-legacy-of-phoebe-prince-bullying-and-blame-in-cyberspace-and-the-school-system-90094637.html Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:45:17 PDT
Media and news outlets have been abuzz since January 14 about 15-year-old Irish Phoebe Prince from a small town in CoClare, Ireland, a student of South Hadley High School in Massachusetts, who hanged herself in a stairwell after enduring approximately three months of relentless verbal and physical harassment by her new classmates, nine of whom faced a range of felony charges after Phoebe's suicide including, in the case of Sean Mulveyhill, statuatory rape After briefly dating 17-year-old Sean Mulveyhill, Phoebe was met with a campaign of abuse by Mulveyhill's ex-girlfriend 17-year-old Kayla Narey and her friendsThe New York Daily News reported that "students said Phoebe was called "Irish slut" and "whore" on Twitter, Craigslist, Facebook and Formspring READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/father_tim/catholic-church-is-getting-sex-education-the-hard-way-89343107.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/father_tim/catholic-church-is-getting-sex-education-the-hard-way-89343107.html Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:15:21 PDT My friends:A great deal of the rage and shock felt by the public about the Catholic Church's self-inflicted child sex abuse scandal centers on a simple question: WHY didn't those in authority DO SOMETHING right away when they heard about THE PROBLEM?Of course, many of those in authority DID do something right away: They either ignored it, blamed the victims and swore them to silence after wrenching, blame-switching interrogations, or transferred the offending priest to another parish or even another country where he was free to renew his evil acts A few sought to send the priest, or the victims, or all of them, to a Church psychiatrist (a responsibility I know well) -- hopefully to both sort out the truth, arrive at a just solution consistent with canon and civil law, and to help begin the process of emotional and spiritual healing needed by allSadly but honestly though, this latter path was the exception rather than the rule And an even less-followed path was simply calling the police, although in Ireland particularly, the Church had built itself a very high pedestal from which to "rule" its flock -- which the police were part of READ MORE ]]>