Tag: Fr Paddy Byrne

Lent in lockdown is perhaps enough penance for any of us!! Living through a pandemic brings huge challenges, not just physically but also emotionally and...

Fear and anxiety about a possible future event or circumstance is often a greater suffering than the suffering we endure when (and if) the...

Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, has become an international voice of hope. She is a hugely inspirational woman. Her voice is...

As the evenings lengthen and new signs of life appear in our gardens, we welcome a new spring. The following ancient story tells how the...

A Laois parish priest has explained how the loss of a traditional Irish funeral has exacerbated the grief that is being experienced by the...

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland recently expressed shock, over what he says is a “blasphemous” satirical clip broadcast on RTE’s New...

2020 has been a tough year. For months on end we have been listening out for the figures: how many new cases today? How...

Saint Matthew, tells us that the Lord had said through the prophet that the virgin will be with child and they will call him...

Christmas 2020 comes after a most challenging year, a year we will never forget. We see light at the end of the tunnel, but...

Current restrictions are about to lift. Whilst we continue to live in this time of pandemic, I’m really looking forward to the resumption of...

I love this story from Katharine Hepburn’s childhood; it’s beautiful, in her own words... Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were...

November is a time to remember and pray for family members, colleagues, neighbours and friends who have died since this time last year. Those who...

1. Life is messy (Covid especially: world-wide mess, winter weather, weariness) The lived experience of life is what makes us who we are. If we...

2020 has been some roller-coaster, one that will be remembered for generations to come as the year of the pandemic. As we begin weeks of...

Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going...

Whether you’re struggling with the fear and isolation of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic or you’re just having one of those weeks where nothing...

Matt Talbot was born May 1856 in Dublin Ireland. He was one of twelve children, six of whom lived to adulthood. His father was a...

This pandemic is far from over, whilst hopefully it remains contained, on our Island. Here in Laois we face the second week of restrictions, which...

John Hume put his devotion to what was right above what was best for himself, his life’s work was given its ultimate return in...

Our world screams out for poetry even if it can’t cope with it. Faith can only exist in a world of poetry. God is always...

Bishop Denis Nulty has announced a number of appointments and retirements of priests in the Kildare and Leighlin Diocese. Locally, Fr Paddy Byrne is to...

During the past ten days, five lives have been lost to suicide in Laois. Wonderful lives, abruptly ended, leaving behind families overwhelmed with grief...

The global pandemic has had a shattering effect on humanity. This deadly virus, has made no exceptions, its ugly presence has wounded Princes, Prime Ministers,...

Laois priest Fr Paddy Byrne has hit out over Pope Francis' decision to do a U-turn on previous plans to allow married men in...

Gardai have arrested and charged a man following criminal damage at a Laois church on Sunday. The candelabra in Abbeyleix church was completely smashed up...

This is sickening. A church in Laois was the victim of senseless vandalism overnight. The candelabra in Abbeyleix church has been completely smashed up. Taking to Twitter...

Abbeyleix Parish Priest Fr Paddy Byrne has launched a blistering attack against plans to stage an event commemorating the RIC. Taking to Facebook this afternoon,...

This Sunday, October 13 2019 will be canonized on October 13 2019, in Rome. Pope Francis decreed that Newman and four other blesseds will be...

This week is the celebration of St Francis of Assissi who is the patron saint of animals and they've come up with a novel...

Christianity is the only religion which worships the scapegoat, the one who is hated, excluded, spat upon, blamed for everything, ridiculed, shamed, and made...