A community in Co Down has been "shaken and upset deeply" by an attack on a priest and the death of a man at the weekend, a senior cleric has said. Bishop of Down and Connor Alan McGuckian was ...

It was reported to police on Sunday that a man had walked into the church on St. Patrick’s Avenue and hit the priest in the head with a bottle before leaving. The parish priest of St. Patrick in ...

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A community in Co Down has been “shaken and upset deeply” by the attack on a priest and the death of a man at the weekend, Bishop Alan McGuckian has said. Father John Murray was struck on the head in ...

A priest who was seriously assaulted at the weekend is now “comfortable and stable” in hospital. Fr John Murray is “progressing” in his recovery, a colleague said. It came as hundreds of shocked ...