Dublin Zoo has blamed the Pope for causing a drop of almost 100,000 in visitor numbers this year.

PILGRIMS can now have a lasting souvenir of the historic Papal visit to Dublin, Knock and the World Meeting of Families (WMOF) with the release of a commemorative book.

A new documentary highlights the effect Pope John Paul ll's visit to the Republic in 1979 had on the peace process.

POPE Francis has lamented how Irish church authorities failed to respond to the crimes of sexual abuse, speaking during his first public appearance at the Vatican after accusations that he himself covered up for a former US cardinal.

It's important that people respect Arlene Foster's decision not to attend Saturday's civic reception for Pope Francis in Dublin Castle.

'UNGODLY hour' might not be the correct term when you are about to fly with the Pope, but it well describes the 3.45am alarm call that woke me on Saturday after a couple of hours' restless sleep.

ONE of the cars used by Pope Francis during his visit to Ireland has been donated to Foyle Search and Rescue in Derry.

POPE Francis has been accused of being dismissive of a survivor of clerical abuse by saying she was "fixated" on tribunals.

GARDAI have declined to put an official figure on the numbers who attended Mass at the Phoenix Park - as the crowd appeared well short of the expected 500,000.

IRISH army officers at Co Donegal’s Finner camp have revealed that more than 30 soldiers sought sick leave in advance of the papal visit.

The car used by Pope Francis during his trip to Ireland is to be donated to help homeless families.

IT is not every day that you get to meet the Pope.

A DIRECTOR at Rome's leading American priest school has described an archbishop who claims Pope Francis knew of sexual abuse allegations against a senior cleric as "a man of great interity".

The Republic's children's minister Katherine Zappone told Pope Francis the Church must address the "shameful" Tuam Mother and Baby home scandal.

I THINK every Irish household has at least one bottle.

They say a week is a long time in politics and, if that is the case, then 39 years must be an eternity.

On the 29th of September 1979 I enthusiastically and excitedly jumped onto a wreck of a bus commissioned by the then Chaplin to the St Francis Youth Group and headed to Galway in the middle of the night.

ONCE upon a time, if a pope or indeed a cardinal had made a speech in Ireland, he would have been virtually guaranteed a standing ovation.

FOR the 45,000 people in Knock yesterday, the visit by Pope Francis was an occasion of unadulterated joy.

SKY News confused viewers with an on-screen blunder in its coverage of Pope Francis arriving in Dublin.