Ali Dunworth explores the culture, customs and craic surrounding pints in Ireland in her new book "A Compendium of Irish Pints". In this extract, she explores the complex relationship between the ...

Bishop Duffy said the lay ministers will continue to be trained over the coming months and be commissioned to preside over funerals in their parishes. St. Macartan’s Cathedral in the Diocese of ...

DUBLIN (RNS) After 32 years as an interior designer, Patricia Wojnar went back to school for a master's degree in bereavement studies, a hot commodity in Ireland's "post-Catholic'' economy that ...

Those attending the recent Leinster funeral of Irish Defence Force veteran Shay Bradley were in for a surprise. As his coffin was being lowered to the ground, mourners could suddenly hear Bradley’s ...

Background: In business for over 50 years, this family business has witnessed many changes in how funerals are managed. Operating at its branches in Tralee and Listowel, Gleasure Funeral Homes has ...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all ...

Eight people reportedly have been arrested in Ireland following a violent cemetery brawl that erupted between two families who had been attending separate funerals. The incident at Tuam cemetery in ...

Warning: This touching moment contains NSFW language. Please be advised. It’s hard to imagine a more somber occasion than a funeral. The loss of a loved one is deeply painful, and people who are ...

The Trump administration reportedly paid an Irish funeral home almost $1 million to rent four limousines during the President’s two-day trip to Ireland this week. The $935,033 total was paid in four ...

It was a grave situation. A serious dustup in an Irish cemetery has so far resulted in the arrest of seven men and one woman from a pair of families in Galway that had been at odds, according to the ...

(FOX NEWS) -- This Irish funnyman is really trying to put the fun in funeral. A Dublin dad turned his own funeral into a comedy show when family members played a message he had pre-recorded, according ...