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The closure of Joe Walsh Tours is a major blow for Irish-organised pilgrimages to Lourdes and other Catholic shrines on the continent, says a priest who has brought thousands to Lourdes annually for three decades.
The departure last week of JWT Pilgrimtours was a blow, he said. Anyone could get a cheap flight to Biarritz, Toulouse or Bordeaux if they wanted to visit the holy grotto at Lourdes, said Fr Martin Noone. But JWT had decades of experience with the people on the ground in Lourdes; the hotel and transport providers; local guides; and the Accueil Notre Dame, which has many of the facilities of a modern hospital and is a place of welcome for sick people, close to the grotto.
I have a long personal history with St Patrick’s Guild, the adoption agency at the centre of Wednesday night’s RTÉ Investigates programme about traded babies and robbed identities.
One contributor spoke of the fortress mentality exhibited when he sought information about his personal history. I can testify myself that his choice of the word fortress was apt and accurate.
The programme devoted a whole 90 minutes to illegal adoptions, but never lost its hold. Aoife Hegarty’s research was exhaustive in scope and created a documentary that will cause as much of a stir as previous exposés of the shameful litany of abuses in our society.
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Pope Francis has appointed the Most Reverend Dr Dermot Farrell as Archbishop of Dublin.
Archbishop-elect Farrell replaces the Most Reverend Archbishop Diarmuid Martin whose request for retirement has been accepted by the Pontiff and is effective from today.
The date that Dr Farrell will take over the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Dublin will be announced at a later date.
In April, the Archbishop Martin reached the age of retirement. After much anticipation and speculation, today Pope Francis announced replacement - the Bishop of Ossory the Most Reverend Dr Dermot Farrell.
Originally from Co Westmeath, the 66-year-old - who has previously served as a parish priest in Co Meath and has held the position of President of St Patrick s College in Maynooth - became the Bishop of Ossory in 2018.