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  • Is your Ireland dream home a 12th-century haunted Irish castle

    04/12/2020 8:40:18 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 43 replies
    Iris Central ^ | 04/08/2020
    Dating back to the 12th-century and the Norman invasion of Ireland, Portlick Castle, in Athlone, County Westmeath, is on the market for $1,519,660 (€1,400,000), that's about as much as you'd pay for a large semi-detached house in Dublin! Portlick Castle boasts of ten bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. A lakeside property, nestled on 12 acres of land it really is the stuff of dreams. Of course, there's a little nightmarish stuff too! No house as old as this gets through the centuries without picking up a few ghost stories and Portlick has a few. According to the real estate agent, Stan...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pro-choice TD Troy is denied holy communion

    01/28/2019 10:31:36 AM PST · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    The Times ^ | January 27, 2019 | Justine McCarthy
    Pro-choice TD Troy is denied holy communion A Catholic priest refused to give communion to Fianna Fail TD Robert Troy at a recent funeral mass because the politician supported the introduction of legalised abortion services.Fr John Hogan, parish priest of Multyfarnham in Co Westmeath, withheld the host from Troy on January 4 during a requiem mass at St Nicholas’s parish church in the diocese of Meath.Troy, who had been regarded as “anti-choice”, revealed last month in an interview with Hot Press magazine that he voted yes in the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment last May. Last week the TD...