Ireland has been blessed to host two papal visits in the last 50 years. The visits bookended a period in a country that had undergone significant change in its Catholic faith. Comparing Pope Francis’ ...

Pope Francis had a learning curve on clergy sexual abuse, with the turning point coming in 2018. Few people could have ...

Pope Francis met former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Dublin Castle in 2018 as part of a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland ...

A priest who helped organise Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland in 2018 has recalled watching the pontiff compose his personal ...

The Pope prayed before the Apparition Chapel during his two-day visit to Ireland in 2018. Today, a mourning scarf is draped across his photograph in the church. Parish Priest of Knock and Rector ...

Ireland overcame Scotland by the barest of margins in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2025. With Ireland's win in ...

Pope Francis made history in 2018 when he became the second pope to visit Ireland, but he had already spent a few months in ...

As Pope Francis' plane, Shepherd One, with an Irish tricolour and the flag of the Holy See flying from the cockpit windows, touched down at Dublin Airport on the morning of Saturday 25 August 2018, it ...

The pontiff visited Ireland for two days in August 2018, which included a visit to Knock shrine in Co Mayo, a meeting with ...

A proposed trip north of the border during the pontiff’s historic visit to the island of Ireland in 2018 was shelved because ...