Second Reading

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty pays tribute to moral theologian Fr Enda McDonagh on his 90th birthday

OPINION Kevin Hegarty on the rewards of noticing the many treasures that lie close to home

COMMENT Daniel O’Connell helped end slavery in the British Empire and campaigned for its abolition in the United States

COMMENT Irish people are seizing the chance to repay the incredible kindness that Native Americans showed us during the Famine

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on an Australian report on the Church’s failure protect children from abuse and its recommendations for improved governance

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty pays tribute to celebrated writer, cartographer and artist Tim Robinson, who died on April 3

COMMENT Fr Kevin looks at the roots of Bonfire Night, later known as St John’s Eve, and the rituals surrounding the tradition 

OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty on Westport History Society’s journal ‘Cathair na Mairt’ and the importance of history for identity

COMMENT As Spanish archaeologists search for the remains of Red Hugh O’Donnell, Kevin Hegarty unearths his story

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the Spanish Flu pandemic that raged throughout the world in 1918 and 1919