Fr Michael Mullaney has been appointed president of the national seminary, St Patrick's College in Maynooth, for the next three years as the Catholic bishops announce plans to separate out the ...

The Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said Maynooth seminary "has to change, not just because of current allegations but because of the fact that we're living in a different world." The change that ...

The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has announced that he will not send trainee priests from his own diocese, the largest in Ireland, to the national seminary at St Patrick’s College, ...

St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, a seminary near Dublin, is pictured in this undated photo. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said he would no longer send students to the national seminary at ...

THE number of trainees for the priesthood at Maynooth has dropped to a record low this year. Just six first year seminarians are expected to be enrolled when classes resume later this month, according ...

New York's Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan will submit a report to Pope Benedict XVI which is expected to recommend that all Irish priests be trained in the Pontifical Irish College in Rome according to ...

NCR received a letter from Msgr. Hugh G Connolly, president of Saint Patrick’s College Maynooth, the national seminary of Ireland. Msgr. Connolly objected to this web column by Eugene Kennedy. Msgr.

St Patrick's College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The Dublin archbishop Diarmuid Martin says he will not send trainee priests to the seminary amid claims of a 'Grindr hook-up culture' he says have not ...

Maynooth University (MU) is celebrating a tradition in teacher training that goes back more than 90 years, with the opening of a new €14m school of education. From a modest six students on the higher ...

The former senior dean at Maynooth College - who was "demoted and humiliated" after expressing concerns about activities at the college in the 1980s - has said the current saga reads "like deja vu".