In accordance with the public health restrictions to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered remotely this week for their Summer 2021 General Meeting via video-link, instead of the usual location at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth. This was the fifth plenary meeting of bishops hosted using this medium. …
I warmly congratulate Father Ger Nash on his appointment as Bishop of Ferns.
I have known him since we started in Maynooth together in September 1984 and being ordained one day apart in June 1991.
I am deeply indebted to him since my arrival here in the diocese of Killaloe five years ago. His tremendous…
Government Guidelines: It is advised that other religious ceremonies such as First Holy Communions and Confirmations should not take place in May and June. Further advice will follow on resumption of these ceremonies when it is safe to do so.
On this Monday May 10th we will reopen our churches for the celebration of the Mass and Sacraments with the People of God present and actively participating. For many, being able to return to church to worship as a community is truly a blessing. However, we will need to have regard to health and safety…
This Sunday mark the 50th anniversary of the official opening of our church here in Newmarket on Fergus. On Sunday 2nd May 1971 Bishop Michael Harty blessed and dedicated the new church to the most Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary. It was built at a cost of £120,000 and was the first church in…
Pending advice from NEPHED we hope in the near future it will be deemed safe and appropriate to have congregations present with the suitable guidelines.
However, we have not yet received a date for reopening.
Some dioceses have asked schools not to organise anything before the end of June. The logic behind this is twofold…
Newmarket-on-Fergus Parish