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‘Catholics ought to avoid extremes’

Archbishop Müller (Photo: CNS)

Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks exclusively to Mary O’Regan

Who was to blame for the First World War?

ASSASSINATION ARCHDUKE FERDINAND

A new book looks at the many culprits who caused the catastrophe

The Irish famine was an unnatural disaster

Travel Trip Dublin's Docklands

Historian Tim Pat Coogan considers who was responsible for abandoning countless starving, ragged families to the Great Irish Famine

‘The Catholic Church is extremely poetic’

Sally Read claims that she ‘didn’t write a good poem’ until she was 27. Critics compare her to Sylvia Path, but she feels closer to John Keats (Photo: Dino Ignani)

Miguel Cullen talks to Sally Read, a convert whose acclaimed poetry draws on her experiences as a psychiatric nurse in London

‘It was ghastly to see the men lying there’

Royalty - Queen Elizabeth II State Visit to Ireland

Justin Portess on the unsung heroism of the Irish regiments