Second Reading

COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on the life of former Education Minister Donogh O’Malley, who introduced free second-level education in 1966

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Saint Maximilian Kolbe, murdered at Auschwitz in 1941 after volunteering to die in place of another

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Mayo-born liturgical artist Richard King’s life and contribution

OPINION ‘Care for the environment is the existential moral challenge of our time’, writes Fr Kevin Hegarty

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Pope Francis’s new book ‘Let Us Dream’, a collaboration with biographer Austin Ivereigh

COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on Chuck Feeney, the US billionaire who has given away his fortune

COMMENT In a tribute to the late John O’Donohue, Kevin Hegarty looks back on his friend’s college days

COMMENT  Kevin Hegarty looks back on the philanthropy of James Hack Tuke during the Irish Famine

COMMENT Alexander Williams, the first artist to make Achill well known, died 90 years ago this month

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the life of Agnes Morrogh Bernard, who founded Foxford Woollen Mills in 1892