Latest blog posts

Written by our founders and volunteers, keeping you up to date!

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 2026

From Friday 3 July to Wednesday 8 July, the annual Clogher Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes takes place. This annual journey of pilgrimage to the Shrine of Mary at Lourdes, where Our Lady appeared to St Bernadette in 1858, is not just an annual date in the diocesan diary but a moment of encounter for so many people across our diocese, especially the sick and those with particular needs. This year, some 270 pilgrims travel on the Pilgrimage, led by Bishop...

BISHOP DUFFY CONGRATULATES Mgr PETER O’REILLY & DEAN KENNY HALL ON OBE AWARD

Monsignor Peter O'Reilly, Vicar General of the Diocese of Clogher and Parish Priest of Enniskillen, has been included in the UK King’s Birthday Honours List and was awarded an OBE. Dean Kenneth Hall of St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen, has also been included in the Honours List. The citation accompanying both awards reads: _For Services to Reconciliation and Peace Building in Enniskillen and County Fermanagh_. An OBE is a significant recognition awarded in acknowledgement of distinguished service and substantial contribution in public,...

BISHOP LARRY DUFFY CELEBRATES THE GOLDEN JUBILEE OF ORDINATION AS PRIEST

St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan, was packed to capacity on Sunday afternoon, 14 June, for the celebration of a very moving Mass of Thanksgiving to mark the Golden Jubilee (50th anniversary) of the Ordination to Priesthood of the Bishop of Clogher, Bishop Larry Duffy. A native of Magheracloone, Co Monaghan, Bishop Duffy was ordained a priest on 13 June 1976 by the then Bishop of Clogher, Dr Patrick Mulligan, alongside Fr Michael Daly, now PP of Donaghmoyne and the late Archbishop...

BISHOP LARRY DUFFY TO CELEBRATE GOLDEN JUBILEE OF ORDINATION AS PRIEST THIS SUNDAY

The Bishop of Clogher, Bishop Larry Duffy, will celebrate the 50th anniversary – Golden Jubilee – of his Ordination as a Priest on this Sunday, 14 June 2026, with a Mass of Thanksgiving at St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan. Bishop Duffy himself will be the Chief Celebrant of the Mass, at which he will be joined by family members and friends as well as clergy, religious and lay faithful from across the diocese and beyond. Born in November 1951, Bishop Duffy...

FR STEPHEN SHERRY ORDAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD

On Sunday 26 April 2026, World Day of Prayer for Vocations, the people of the Diocese of Clogher celebrated the Ordination of Rev Stephen Sherry from the Parish of Tullycorbet to the Priesthood by Bishop Larry Duffy, Bishop of Clogher, at St Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan. Fr Stephen was joined by his parents, Gerard and Laura Sherry, his sisters Christina and Andrea, his brother Mark and other family members, many friends and neighbours, together with the clergy from the Diocese...