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“My mother was a committed Catholic, very much so,” he says. In his early teens, the Fiennes family was living in Ireland ... great-uncle was a Benedictine monk and recognised theologian ...

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On that date, the monks of Mount ... Divina, the prayers of adoration, supplication and thanksgiving, sung in choir, six times daily. Conor Brady, a former editor of The Irish Times, is honorary ...

More info Gardai have asked for Gerry “the Monk” Hutch to be hit with a fresh charge - that could see him locked up for life. The Irish Mirror has confirmed that investigators have recommended ...

In a statement read out at a sentencing hearing for the fourth person to be convicted of the murder of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch's nephew ... Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up ...

Hutch has not ruled out running for election again in the future. Much to the annoyance of the Gardaí, Irish people see The Monk as a Robin Hood figure. Gardaí say he is the head of the Hutch ...

GANG boss Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch is back in Lanzarote ... the ­Spanish judiciary that he is unlikely to face trial, The Irish Sun on Sunday understands. The 61-year-old Dubliner was ...