A review of the press
New Papal Nuncio among new ambassadors accredited
TheJournal.ie: The Most Reverend Charles J Brown is one of three ambassadors who presented Letters of Credence to the President.
Read more – http://www.thejournal.ie/new-papal-nuncio-among-new-ambassadors-accredited-today-357408-Feb2012/
Children’s rights referendum will be held this year – Irish Government
Minister Frances Fitzgerald said wording for the referendum is currently being drawn up.
Read more – http://www.thejournal.ie/childrens-rights-referendum-will-be-held-this-year-government-357741-Feb2012/
Clannad Live at Christ Church Cathedral on New York TV on St Patrick’s Day
Broadwayworld.com – In January 2011, the five original members of Clannad, the family group from Donegal, Ireland, came together for a rare live performance marking the band’s 40th anniversary. It was the first full concert in 20 years featuring all five founding members. Recorded at the 11th century Christ Church Cathedral as part of the Temple Bar Tradfest, that evening has been captured in the new public television special – Clannad Live at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, premiering in the New York metropolitan area on WLIW21 on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day.
Read more – http://broadwayworld.com/article/Clannad-Live-at-Christ-Church-Cathedral-Airs-St-Patricks-Day-in-NYC-20120216#ixzz1mdpAOhzf
Bunkered view of reality limits discourse
Irish Times – The running story about the closure of the Vatican embassy is revealing concerning the undertows of Irish life, thinking and feeling. The intelligence that the embassy was among the cheapest of Ireland’s diplomatic missions finally belies the pretence that this was an economic decision, laying bare an opportunistic act of neurotic bigotry by militant atheists seeking to impose their myopic beliefs on the rest of us.
— If you drive around Ireland on Sunday mornings, your progress is impeded at various intervals by the parked cars of the Catholic faithful outside their churches. These are not Martians, but normal Irish citizens who pay taxes, read newspapers, play golf, have sex and eat sushi. Yet the media conversation gives few hints of their continuing existence.
Read more – http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0217/1224311917525.html