This week, as churches throughout the country prepare to reopen their doors for public worship, two Galway parishes will celebrate the completion of a one thousand kilometre journey in prayer, with the launch of a new YouTube video called 1000K to Pray. Featuring inspirational photographs of the East Galway landscape …
Canon Trevor Sullivan is well remembered as Rector of the Aughrim & Creagh Parish Unions, where he served from 1984 until his retirement in 2007. Portadown born, his church ministry began in the 1960s as a lay Church Army captain in England. Following his ordination in the Church of Ireland …
The Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions introduced around the country last week mean that churches cannot currently open for public worship, with the exception of weddings and funerals. But the local clergy in the East Galway village of Aughrim are keen to remind people that that their parishes are still running …
IRISH COMEDIAN SLEEPS ROUGH FOR THE HOMELESS On a bitterly cold night of driving rain and freezing fog, an Irish comedian slept rough on the steps of St John’s Church, Ballinasloe, to raise money and awareness for the homeless this Christmas. It was part of “Rough Set Ireland,” an extreme …
Last Saturday, a Church of Ireland parish launched an exciting new initiative to tackle the crisis of climate change. As part of the bicentenary celebrations of Holy Trinity Church, plans were announced for a new Climate Action Woodland, to be developed on a picturesque site in the historic village of …
