President McAleese at Exchange

It could have been in a movie. A team of ex-offenders presenting President Mary McAleese with flowers while 400 invited guests from all over Ireland stood in an emotional applause.

Photo by Johnny Pardoe

Meet Someone Magnificent

Yourself. Someone up there actually does love you and thinks you're great. Discover the real amazing you - your magnificent true identity and destiny. Begin right here, today.

Prof: economic failure 'sin'

"We are talking about 'sin' here" says Professor Ray Kinsella of University College Dublin on the moral failure and absence of trust at the root of the economic collapse. Read full article in the Irish Times here.

Photo: The Dept of Finance at Government Buildings Dublin (© Fergus Ryan)

Blinded By Science?

Richard Dawkins, Oxford's High Priest of atheism preaches that religious faith is a mental illness. But not all his scientific colleagues agree. Has Dawkins been blinded by science? See related science items: God Is Not Dead Yet by William Lane Craig (Christianity Today website) and Do Science and Faith Really Conflict? by Prof Andrew Bowie, PhD, FTCD.

Revisiting your own Shack

William Paul Young's moving and inspirational best-seller has attracted both praise and strong controversy, with 'God' as a smart-talkin' black woman called Papa. I stayed up all night reading it. So what's it about and why is it so controversial?

Dan Crowley, pensioner and poet, struck up conversation about women priests with a young Trinity Church member. He recorded his subsequent encounter with Jesus as 'incandescent happiness'. Other poems by Trinitarians Áine Darling, John McKeever, Audrey Talbot and  Trish Phillips.  Photos: Audrey (left) and Trish.

Patrick did not explain the Trinity using a shamrock (first mention 17th century!) or drive snakes out of Ireland. Yet he had a dream that changed history. Read how he introduced two princesses to the heavenly King. 

Stamp: the angel Victoricus over St Patrick's Rock at Cashel carrying the Vox Hiberniae (Voice of the Irish) banner.

There are thousands of ancient manuscripts of the New Testament in museums around the world. But amazingly, those in the Chester Beatty Library at Dublin Castle are the very earliest in existence - the gospels, Paul's letters - older than those in the Vatican Museum or the British Library. How on earth did they find their way to Dublin?

One of the most common reasons for people turning away from God is that some great personal or national tragedy has overwhelmed them and they are no longer interested in a God who allows that kind of thing to happen. So, does God really permit evil?

When Aslan met C S Lewis

What if the characters of enchanted Narnia had met their Irish creator, C.S. Lewis? Just such a thought led Oxford's brilliant atheist on the road to surprising joy.