Second Reading

SECOND READING Fr Kevin Hegarty reflects on the significance of November in the Celtic and Christian traditions

COMMENT To mark the 150th anniversary of Jack B Yeats’s birth, Fr Kevin Hegarty discusses his links with Mayo

SECOND READING Kevin Hegarty pays tribute to Paddy Moloney, Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Brendan Kennelly

OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty urges action in the wake of the IPCC’s terrifying report on climate change

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on John Bradburne’s extraordinary search for purpose and his work with people with leprosy

COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s visit to Ireland and his bond with Daniel O’Connell

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the enormous humanitarian contribution of Paul Strzelecki during the Great Famine

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Maud Gonne’s activism on behalf of famine-stricken north Mayo in the late 19th century

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty pays tribute to the late Sr Ethel Normoyle, whose founded the Mission Vale Centre in South Africa

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on WWII and the Mullet Peninsula, from Maureen Sweeney’s D Day forecast to burial of Italians lost at sea