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Catholic Church awaiting Government response to meeting request

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Catholic Church leaders are awaiting a response from the Government to their request for a meeting to discuss the effects the latest Covid-19 restrictions are having on their parishioners.

Under the Level 3 rules, members of all faiths are not allowed to attend religious services in person. Instead, they can be broadcast online, while attendances at funerals and weddings are strictly limited.

However, the four Catholic archbishops have written to Taoiseach Micheál Martin to ask for a meeting to discuss this rule, expressing their concern about the impact on church-goers.

If the meeting goes ahead, it would be the first of its kind since before the abortion referendum in 2018. The Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council said today that

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