# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 5 May, 2013
The Catholic Church teaching on abortion still holds – but the bishops are opposing the proposed legislation the wrong way, writes Fr Tony Flannery.
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# diarmuid-martin - Saturday 13 April, 2013
In an address today, Martin reminisced about his time in Clonliffe College, describing it as a “very cold place in more ways than one.”
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# diarmuid-martin - Saturday 30 March, 2013
But he added the Catholic Church in Ireland needs to learn that it cannot expect people to do as they are told.
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# diarmuid-martin - Thursday 28 March, 2013
But he said “despite the difficulties of the Church in Ireland there are also so many signs of hope”.
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# diarmuid-martin - Monday 11 February, 2013
February 11 is the World Day of the Sick, Brady notes, asking for prayers for those responsible for choosing his successor.
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The Archbishop of Dublin notes that it had been clear that Benedict XVI’s health had been in decline for the past month.
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# diarmuid-martin - Friday 21 December, 2012
The letter warned Dr Martin to be “careful” on the streets because of his views on abortion.
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# diarmuid-martin - Monday 19 November, 2012
Here are the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.
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# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 11 November, 2012
Only 30 per cent of Dublin’s Catholics are still practising, says Diarmuid Martin.
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Be it private prayer or formal services, do you practise your religion if you have one?
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# diarmuid-martin - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
Communion takes up too much school time says Emma Gilmore, but by opting out she fears her son may be ostracised.
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# diarmuid-martin - Monday 1 October, 2012
Diarmuid Martin says the Children’s Rights referendum is welcome, but will not solve all challenges for parents and children.
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# diarmuid-martin - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
Diarmuid Martin has said that there were “questions still to be answered” in relation to the abuse scandal.
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# diarmuid-martin - Monday 11 June, 2012
Christian unity was on the agenda on day two of the congress at Dublin’s RDS today where Archbishop Diarmuid Martin spoke to pilgrims.
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Diarmuid Martin yesterday stressed the “common baptism” between Catholic and Protestant Christians.
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# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 10 June, 2012
All the day’s main news as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed along the way…
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In his opening greeting, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said the past 50 years have been marked with a dark side.
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# diarmuid-martin - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
Dublin Diocese says the eight deacons will not be “lone rangers”…
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# diarmuid-martin - Thursday 24 May, 2012
New figures show details of accusations against ten serial abusers in the diocese – one of whom had 97 allegations against him.
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# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 6 May, 2012
The Archbishop of Dublin said an international investigation of the actions of both Church and State was needed to reveal the “full story”.
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# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 8 April, 2012
In his Easter homily, the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin says the Church in Ireland is enduring a process of “purification”.
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# diarmuid-martin - Saturday 7 April, 2012
The news was confirmed as the Pope appointed a Cardinal as his personal Legate to the event in June.
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# diarmuid-martin - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
The secretary-general of the International Eucharistic Congress says the Pope was enthusiastic about the event, but that there is no indication about whether he’ll attend in person.
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The pontiff promotes the International Eucharistic Congress by ringing a bell presented by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
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# diarmuid-martin - Saturday 3 March, 2012
The Archbishop of Dublin has rejected suggestions that the abuse scandal is over.
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# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 19 February, 2012
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin made the call as he welcomed the new Papal Nuncio to Ireland in Dublin today.
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# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 18 December, 2011
The Archbishop of Dublin also said he felt isolated over his handling of the abuse scandal, but added: “I make mistakes like anybody else”.
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# diarmuid-martin - Monday 28 November, 2011
Diarmuid Martin says that while there is no general “anti-Catholic bias” in the media, it must learn from the errors made within RTÉ.
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Nine things to know by 9am: More details on Budget 2012 pain, Archbishop denies media “anti-Catholic bias”, good news from BoI, and the end of Janet’s X Factor odyssey
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# diarmuid-martin - Thursday 22 September, 2011
Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has said that Catholic education must fight its own corner in a more pluralist Ireland.
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# diarmuid-martin - Wednesday 7 September, 2011
# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 4 September, 2011
In tonight’s Fix: What Diarmuid Martin wants the Taoiseach to explain; Celia Larkin’s earfuls for Bertie; why McDonald’s is ‘Lovin’ It’ in Ballymun; and what did the Rubberbandits get upto at Electric Picnic?
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Nine things you need to know by 9am: Deaths in Ballymun and Waterford, Archbishop admits fears of abuse ‘cabal’, and Vincent Browne’s TV3 ‘Ex Factor’…
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# diarmuid-martin - Wednesday 17 August, 2011
Documents leaked to the Irish Catholic newspaper claim that the Church in the capital is in a precarious financial state.
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# diarmuid-martin - Thursday 21 July, 2011
Is the Taoiseach’s damning criticism of the Vatican a genuine turning point, or another false dawn?
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Officials of the Holy See are yet to respond to Enda Kenny’s Dáil speech, which has generated a huge response.
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# diarmuid-martin - Sunday 17 July, 2011
Meanwhile, the number of dioceses in Ireland looks set to be reduced in the wake of another clerical sex abuse scandal.
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# diarmuid-martin - Tuesday 15 March, 2011
Dublin’s Archbishop Martin adds that the Celtic Tiger fooled us into thinking ‘we had attained something more sophisticated’.
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# diarmuid-martin - Monday 28 February, 2011
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin had been given money for charity, which is believed to have been spent on property.
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‘I didn’t go too far’: Taoiseach defends Cloyne report comments
Enda Kenny was responding to criticism levelled at him by the Vatican last weekend.
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