Galleries Official Opening of An tÁrd Apartments 9th July 2025 view gallery Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes June 2025 view gallery Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock view gallery Ordination of Fr Philip McMahon OFM 22nd June 2025 view gallery Corpus Christi Procession view gallery St Anthony Novena, Ennis Friary, 2025 view gallery Fleadh Nua Mass 2025 view gallery Mass at The Cliffs of Moher 2025 view gallery Praying at the Grottos 2025 view gallery Novena of Masses to the Most Sacred Heart view gallery Easter in Ennis Parish 2025 view gallery Blessing of Easter Food in Ennis Cathedral view gallery Lá ‘le Pádraig 2025 view gallery Rice College Camino Walk view gallery The Visit of the Relics of Venerable Matt Talbot view gallery Resurgam and Ennis Cathedral Junior Choir view gallery Bishop Willie Walsh R.I.P. view gallery Polish Eucharistic Celebrations view gallery World Day of Prayer for the Sick in Lourdes 2025 view gallery World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life view gallery Making St. Brigid’s Crosses view gallery Bishop Willie’s 90th Birthday Celebrations view gallery Station Road Temporary Road Closure view gallery Christmas Mass at the Cathedral view gallery O’Connor’s Newsagents Close view gallery Cantare Christmas Concert 2024 view gallery Ecumenical Carol Service 15th December 2024 view gallery The People of High Street and Parnell Street Book Launch view gallery Summerhill 75th Anniversary 2024 view gallery Cemetery Sunday 2024 view gallery Clare Traveller Community Project Tree Planting at the Cathedral view gallery Defibrillator Installed at the Cathedral view gallery Lourdes October 2024 view gallery Church of Ireland Harvest Service view gallery Rice College Transition Year Students view gallery Relics of St Bernadette in Ennis view gallery Carrigoran House Golden Jubilee view gallery 22nd Infantry Battalion 10th Anniversary view gallery Archbishop Seamus Horgan Arrives in South Sudan view gallery Feast of the Assumption at St Joseph’s Well view gallery Mayoral Reception for Archbishop Séamus view gallery Mass of Thanksgiving view gallery Ordination of Archbishop Séamus Horgan 27th July 2024 view gallery Praying with Archbishop-elect Seamus view gallery A Weekend to Remember view gallery Irish Church Music Association Summer School July 2024 view gallery Silver Jubilee of Fr Barry Horan view gallery Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes June 2024 view gallery Apostolic Workers’ Display June 2024 view gallery St. Anthony Novena 2024 view gallery Fleadh Nua Mass 2024 view gallery Procession for the Feast of Corpus Christi 2nd June 2024 view gallery Annual Mass at the Cliffs of Moher 30th May 2024 view gallery Annual Commemoration Ceremonies at Arbour Hill 2024 view gallery Easter Dawn Mass in Quin Abbey view gallery Easter in Ennis Parish 2024 view gallery Blessing of Easter Food 2024 view gallery Outdoor Stations of the Cross view gallery St. Patrick’s Day 2024 view gallery Planning for Lourdes 2024 view gallery Rice College Transition Year Students Assist the Ennis Active Retirement Group view gallery Catholic Schools Week 2024 view gallery St. Brigid’s Day 2024 view gallery Christmas at the Cathedral 2023 view gallery Christmas Concert with Cantare Choir and Orchestra view gallery Festival of Cribs in Liscannor 2023 view gallery Annual Ecumenical Carol Service 2023 view gallery Christmas Tree Festival 2023 view gallery A Weekend in July – St. Michael’s Villas 70th Anniversary Book Launch view gallery Rule of the Friars Minor 800th Anniversary view gallery SMV70 Community Choir view gallery Clare Remembrance Day November 2023 view gallery Cemetery Sunday 5th November 2023 view gallery Killaloe Autumn Pilgrimage to Lourdes October 2023 view gallery Construction Works at St. Joseph’s Church view gallery Rice College Lough Derg Retreat 2023 view gallery Tiles for the Aisles view gallery Clare India Day view gallery Congratulations to Fr Paschal view gallery Killaloe Diocese Pilgrimage to Lough Derg August 2023 view gallery World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 view gallery Celebrating 190 years of Priesthood view gallery Installation of Canon Kevin O’Brien view gallery Ruby Jubilee of Archbishop Eugene Nugent view gallery Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes June 2023 view gallery 100th Birthday Celebrations for Nora Dinan view gallery Apostolic Work Display 2023 view gallery Funeral Mass of Bro. Sean McNamara view gallery St Anthony’s Novena 2023 view gallery Feast of Corpus Christi 2023 view gallery Fleadh Nua Mass and Blessing of the Roads 2023 view gallery Silver Jubilee of Fr Paschal Hanrahan view gallery Mass at the Cliffs of Moher 2023 view gallery Darkness into Light 2023 view gallery Official Opening of Bunscoil na mBráithre, Inis view gallery Feast Day of Blessed Edmund Rice view gallery Remembering the 75th Anniversary of Shannon Air Disaster 15th April 1948 view gallery Easter Dawn Mass at Quin Abbey 2023 view gallery Easter Vigil Mass in Ennis Cathedral view gallery Blessing of the Easter Food 2023 view gallery Stations of the Cross on Good Friday view gallery Chrism Mass in SS Peter & Paul Cathedral 2023 view gallery Spring Cleaning in the Cathedral view gallery Clare Roots Society Book Launch view gallery Celebrating St Patrick’s Day in Ennis view gallery World Day of the Sick in Lourdes 11th February 2023 view gallery Fr Michael Visits Ennis view gallery Ordination of Michael McCaul 29th January 2023 view gallery Ukrainian Christmas view gallery Christmas at the Cathedral view gallery Ecumenical Carol Service 18th December 2022 view gallery Festival of Cribs in Liscannor 2022 view gallery Strengthening our Faith view gallery Sculpture in Honour of the Ursuline and Presentation Sisters Unveiled view gallery Cemetery Sunday 6th November 2022 view gallery Official Opening of New Homes view gallery Jack Heaslip R.I.P view gallery Centenary of An Gárda Síochána in Ennis view gallery Killaloe Diocese Pilgrimage to Lourdes October 2022 view gallery Celebrating 90 Years of Scouting in Ennis view gallery Defence Forces Ceremony of Remembrance view gallery Ukrainian Community Sing at Ennis Cathedral view gallery Centenary Celebrations for Lucy O’Halloran view gallery Lough Derg Pilgrimage 2022 view gallery Reek Sunday 2022 view gallery Lourdes June 2022 view gallery Fr. John Bane’s Golden Jubilee view gallery Organ Donors and Transplant Recipients Memorial view gallery St. Anthony Novena 2022 view gallery Mass at the Cliffs of Moher view gallery Annual Mass at the Grotto in St. Michael’s Villas 2022 view gallery Darkness into Light 7th May 2022 view gallery Feast of Blessed Edmund Rice view gallery Fr. Antun’s 1st Mass 25th April 2022 view gallery Fr. Antun’s Ordination to the Priesthood 24th April 2022 view gallery Easter Week in Ennis view gallery Launch of Bishop Fintan’s Book in Ennis Cathedral view gallery St. Patrick’s Day in Ennis 2022 view gallery Ennis Camino Walk for Rice College Students view gallery Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes view gallery Carols for Christmas 27th December 2021 view gallery Christmas at the Cathedral 2021 view gallery St. Flannan’s Day Mass view gallery Bambinelli Sunday 12th December 2021 view gallery Advent by Candlelight 5th December 2021 view gallery Blessing of Cloughleigh Marian Shrine 5th December 2021 view gallery Blessing of Graves 2021 view gallery First Interment of Ashes in Ennis Parish Columbarium view gallery Consecration of our Columbarium 21st October 2021 view gallery Synod on Synodality view gallery Our Parish Columbarium – A Place of Prayer and Repose view gallery Ordination of Antun Pašalić to the Diaconate view gallery Ordination of Bishop Ger Nash 5th September 2021 view gallery Confirmation Celebrations for Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg 21st August 2021 view gallery Annual Mass in St Joseph’s Well view gallery Confirmation Celebrations for Ennis National School 13th August 2021 view gallery Ennis National School First Penance with Fr. Tom Ryan & Fr. Joy, 23rd June 2021 view gallery Memorial Mass and Plaque Unveiling for Patrick Morrissey view gallery Blessing & Opening of Clare Civil Defence Headquarters view gallery The Ordination of Fr. Damian Casey O.F.M. view gallery Easter Vigil 2021 view gallery Good Friday 2021 view gallery Mass of the Chrism 2021 view gallery St. Patrick’s Day 2021 view gallery Ennis Parishioner Accompanies Pope Francis to Iraq view gallery Ash Wednesday 2021 view gallery Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes 3rd to 11th February 2021 view gallery Christmas 2020 view gallery Concert in the Cathedral for Nursing Home Staff and Residents view gallery Praying with our Leaving Certs Students view gallery Religious Gifts available at the Parish Office view gallery Diocesan Day of Remembrance view gallery From A Distance Concerts view gallery Matt Talbot Shrine view gallery Remembering Our Dead view gallery Blessing of Animals on the Feast of St. Francis view gallery Bishop Fintan’s Fourth Anniversary as Bishop of Killaloe view gallery Ennis National School First Holy Communion view gallery Diaconal Ordination of Bro. Damian Casey OFM view gallery Holy Family Senior School Confirmation Ceremonies view gallery Ennis National School Confirmation Ceremonies view gallery Ennis National School Graduation Ceremony view gallery Re-opening of the Cathedral and Parish Office view gallery Book of Condolence Opened for Detective Garda Colm Horkan view gallery Annual Global Rosary Relay view gallery Feast of St. Anthony view gallery Rice College Online Graduation Ceremony view gallery St. Flannan’s College Virtual Graduation Ceremony view gallery Re-opening the Cathedral view gallery The Priest Behind the Camera view gallery Ennis Grottoes view gallery Easter Vigil 11th April 2020 view gallery Good Friday 10th April 2020 view gallery Mass of the Lord’s Supper 9th April 2020 view gallery Chrism Mass 9th April 2020 view gallery Palm Sunday 5th April 2020 view gallery Ennis, Our Home, Our Town view gallery The Cathedral Clock view gallery Social Distancing view gallery St. Patrick’s Day 2020 view gallery Hour of Prayer view gallery Marty Morrissey Visits Rice College view gallery Scoil Chríost Rí Cloughleigh Confirmation 6th March view gallery St. Clare’s School Confirmation view gallery The Funeral of Canon Pat Taaffe view gallery Visit by Bishop Fintan to 6th Class Holy Family School before Confirmation view gallery Investiture of Bishop Fintan to the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem view gallery Ennis Scout Hall Development view gallery Confirmation Gael Scoil Mhicil Ciosóg – 14th February view gallery Catholic Schools Week view gallery Making St. Bridget’s Crosses view gallery Christmas 2019 view gallery Festival of Trees 2019 view gallery St. Flannan’s Day view gallery Holy Family School Present the 12 Days of Christmas view gallery Annual Ecumenical Carol Service view gallery Santa Comes to Mass view gallery Festival of Cribs in Liscannor view gallery Irish Kidney Association 30th Anniversary Celebration view gallery Caring for Carers Annual Dinner view gallery Ennis Cathedral Junior Choir view gallery The Jesse Tree view gallery Ennis Hospital Remembrance Mass view gallery Rice College Pledge Presentation view gallery Pope John Paul II Awards 2019 view gallery Pastoral Visit of the Archbishop of Dublin view gallery Annual Armistice Day Ecumenical Commemoration Service in Cathedral view gallery Killaloe Priests in service days held in Loughrea, November 10th – 13th 2019 view gallery Visit of Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo view gallery Cemetery Sunday view gallery Nigel Bridge view gallery Harvest Festival view gallery Instillation of Rev Kevin O’Brien view gallery Bishop Fintan launches A Perfect Peace – Newman – Saint for our Time at St Flannan’s College to launch view gallery Blessing of small animals view gallery Blessing of Animals, Ennis Friary 6th October 2019 view gallery Autumn Pilgrimage to Lourdes view gallery Rice College School Retreat on Lough Derg view gallery Holy Family School view gallery Clare 22 Battalion Association view gallery Annual Novena to Padre Pio view gallery Anna Monahan presents Fr. Tom Ryan with a cheque for €1000.00 for the painting of the cathedral from Ennis Cathedral choir view gallery Ennis Parish celebrates dinner with volunteers, staff, choir & folk group view gallery Cake Sale in Aid of the Cathedral Painting and Lighting Appeal view gallery Polish Community Pilgrimage to St John’s Well, Killone view gallery Fr. Joy’s celebration view gallery Bro Ian Cunningham OFM – First Profession view gallery Pilgrimage to Lough Derg, August 2019 view gallery Reek Sunday Pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick view gallery Demolition of CBS Primary School view gallery Lighting in the Cathedral view gallery Laudato Si view gallery Graduation of Antun Pasalic view gallery Taizé pilgrimage 2019 view gallery Celebrating Silver Jubilee of Msgr Seamus Horgan view gallery Wreath Laying Service for the Clare War Dead view gallery 40 Years of Priesthood view gallery Welcome to the Sisters of Mercy view gallery Work has begun on the painting and decorating of the Cathedral. view gallery Anointing of the Sick, Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes view gallery Lourdes Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage Torch Lit Procession view gallery Mass at Lourdes Grotto, Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage view gallery Opening Mass at Lourdes Killaloe Diocesan Pilgriamge view gallery Members of the Polish Community attending the Corpus Christi Procession on Sunday 23rd June 2019 view gallery Killaloe Diocese Annual Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine view gallery Diamond Jubilarians view gallery Cathedral Re-Opens view gallery Apostolic Works’ Display 64th Exhibition, Maria Assumpta Hall, Ennis, Friday 14th June 2019 view gallery St. Anthony’s Novena at Friary view gallery May Devotions in Honour of Our Lady at the Grottoes in Ennis view gallery Fr. Dan Spaight was recently presented with his Golden Jubilee Pioneer pin by his neighbours at the May Devotions in the Grotto of St. Michael’s Villas view gallery Annual Mass & Anointing for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses; Ennis Cathedral; Wednesday, 15th May; Chief Celebrant Bishop Fintan Monahan view gallery Croagh Patrick with Rice College 8th May, 2019 view gallery Mass of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for the Irish Kidney Association 280419 view gallery Easter Ceremonies in Ennis 18th – 22nd April view gallery Chrism Mass Cathedral SS Peter & Paul, Wednesday 17th April view gallery Fr. Des Hillary leading the Priests in reflection on Priesthood before Chrism Mass Wednesday 17th April view gallery Reconciliation Service, Cathedral SS Peter & Paul, 15th April view gallery Holy Family School First Confessions view gallery Polish Community Retreat view gallery Confirmation Holy Family School, 7th April 2019 view gallery Holy Family Senior School Confirmation 060419 view gallery Official Opening of Scoil Chríost Rí 050419 view gallery Children of Holy Family School take part in the Ceremony of Light in preparation for Confirmation 2019 view gallery Irish Culture Orientation Course in Kimmage Manor view gallery St. Patrick’s Day in Ennis view gallery Ennis Schools Sacramental Dinner – 11th March view gallery Confirmation of Students from Ennis National School and Parish After Schools Project 090319 view gallery Youth Space Lent 2019 view gallery 100th Birthday Celebrations for Theresa Corbett view gallery Bishop Fintan visits the students preparing for Confirmation in the Holy Family School view gallery Students of Holy Family School receiving Ashes on Ash Wednesday from Fr. Ger & Fr. Dariusz view gallery Clare Person of the Year 2018 – Laura Brennan view gallery Bishop Willie & Fr. Cletus Celebrate 60 years of Ordination view gallery Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes & World Day for the sick 2019 view gallery Rice College Students pledge of Commitment view gallery Blessing of throats at Holy Family School, Fr. Dariusz Plasek & Fr. Ger Fitzgerald view gallery Holy Family School’s Grandparents day & assembly as part of Catholic School’s week view gallery First Year students in Rice College take a Camino around Ennis view gallery Making of St. Bridget’s Crosses in Ennis Parish, all proceeds to Organ Restoration Fund view gallery Carols by Candlelight in Cloughleigh view gallery Festival of Christmas Trees in St. Columba’s Church view gallery Papal Organ view gallery Ecumenical Carol Service view gallery Santa Comes to Mass view gallery Celebrations to Honour 100 years of Polish Independance view gallery Honouring the Centenary of the ending of World War 1918 view gallery Cathedral Fundraiser view gallery Go Make Disciples of All Nations Book Launch view gallery Ennis Hospital Remembrance view gallery Voice of Peace Ministry Retreat view gallery Cemetery Sunday view gallery Clare Carer of the Year view gallery Harvest Festival at St. Columbas view gallery San Giovanni & Sorrento, Italy view gallery Pilgrimage to Lourdes view gallery Cloughleigh Oratory 40th Celebration view gallery Lough Derg Retreat view gallery Magda Schmidt Christian Initiation Completed view gallery Sisters of Mercy, St. Xavier’s Convent Celebrate Mercy Day view gallery Padre Pio Triduum, Bishop Fintan Monahan, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan & Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo view gallery Bell ringing at Ennis Friary, European year of Cultural Heritage view gallery Mass celebrating deceased members of 22nd Infantry Batallion. view gallery Visiting Choir to Cathedral SS Peter & Paul view gallery Ennis Parish Pilgrimage to Lough Derg view gallery Farewell party for Fr. Tom Hogan from the Indian Community in Ennis view gallery Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes view gallery Preparation for visit of Icon of World Meeting of Families view gallery Adrian O’Neill, parish office volunteer, returns from the Special Olympics view gallery Killaloe Apostolic Works Annual Display view gallery Ordination to the Priesthood of Martin Shanahan, St. Mary’s Church, Mullagh view gallery Clare 250 Cancer Centre, Ballygriffey, opens it’s doors to the public view gallery Senior Citizen’s Day trip to Killarney view gallery Irish Kidney Association Mass of Remembrance & Thanksgiving view gallery Mass at St. Flannan’s Well Inagh view gallery Mass for People with Disabilities & Chronic Illness view gallery Ennis Old Folks Club presentation to Rev. Martin Shanahan on his upcoming Ordination view gallery Annual Ennis Old Folks Club Trip to Knock view gallery O’Dea Clan gathering, Mass at Cathedral view gallery International Nurses Day – Blessing of Hands Ceremony at Ennis Hospital view gallery Diocese of Killaloe Family Picnic Day at Ennis Showgrounds view gallery Blessing of all Babies Baptised in Ennis parish in 2017-2018 view gallery Hand over of Keys for Scoil Chríost Rí view gallery Service for 70th Anniversary of Pan American “Empress of the Skies” crash at Rineanna view gallery Presentation to Faith Friends for Confirmation Programme at Parish Centre view gallery Demolition of Scoil Chriost Rí view gallery Dawn Mass, Easter Sunday morning, 5.30am, Drumcliffe Graveyard view gallery Easter Vigil Mass, Cathedral view gallery Chrism Mass, Cathedral SS Peter & Paul view gallery Clarecastle Day Care Centre, Easter Bonnetts view gallery Ennis St. Patrick’s Day parade 2018 view gallery Bishop Fintan visiting Confirmation classes, Ennis National School with Principal Ray Mc Inerney view gallery Confirmation Ennis National School, Cathedral SS Peter & Paul view gallery Lunch of Daffodil Day at Treaceys West County Hotel view gallery Out & about in Ennis during the snow view gallery People of the Year Awards, Cathedral view gallery Gael Scoil Confirmation view gallery Mass in Cathedral marking Catholic Schools week view gallery Brothers of Charity Spring Social, West County Hotel view gallery Launch of Catholic Schools week, St. Flannan’s College view gallery Group making St.Brigid crosses view gallery 60th Anniversary of the Carmody Hotel tragedy view gallery Preliminary work begins for Stage II of Cuan an Chláir Houses – Old Farm Buildings at Cahercalla view gallery
