There are times when I think back to when I was a moody teenager during a family holiday in a damp Bundoran resort. On one of the least wet days, we were packed into the Nissan Vanette and headed off to a remote Glencolmcille.

There was a funeral I recall from a few years back - a handyman, a good man, the kind who'd give you a day's work for nothing and never mention it again.

Once bishops could be seen but not heard, apart from the regular interventions of the famous bishop of Cork, Connie Lucey, an outspoken and combative character whose main platform was the Confirmation circuit.

There’s a particular kind of morning - and if you’re anywhere near sixty, you’ll know the one - when you wake up, and the light through the window curtains is doing something theatrical, the coffee smells like it actually means it, and somewhere ...

Having too much money is a strange difficulty. We are unusual among the countries of the world in that we have a huge and growing budget surplus. In an era of cutbacks and strained budgets, it is an Irish peculiarity to have plenty.

Immediately following my experience of Sinners, the Oscar-winning, Gothic horror film by Ryan Coogler, I emerged into the Los Angeles summer’s evening with my heart thumping and eyes wide (and not just because of cost of the cinema ticket).

For Roman Catholics, it’s particularly gratifying that the first official visit of the newly enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, was to Rome, when on Monday, April 27 last she visited Pope Leo as they met for the first time and ...

I was reminded in recent times, on reading John Connell’s book, Twelve Sheep, of the value of savouring our work situations, observing the spiritual to receive gifts we might otherwise miss out on.

Anyone who grew up watching the cult television series The X-Files will remember that its mysteries came wrapped in the supernatural: extraterrestrials, unexplained phenomena, otherworldly entities.

A report last week ranked the best places to take a scenic drive in Ireland.