A new Quaker Worship Group is being formed in County Leitrim – a county where there has never before been a Friends’ meeting. Participants at the first meeting came from Donegal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Sligo and Belfast.

Future meetings of the North West Worship Group are planned for 3:00pm on the second Sunday of the month at Kinlough Community Centre, Co. Leitrim F91 T802.  The next meeting will take place on Sunday Jan. 11, and every second Sunday thereafter.

You can contact Rachel Cave (rrc@iol.ie) for more information.

Once this Worship Group is a bit more firmly established, it will be added to the “Find a Meeting” section of this website.

The Irish Council of Churches and Irish Inter Church Meeting, along with the Church Leaders, invite you to a creation care conference, to be held at the Canal Court Hotel in Newry during 10.00-15.30 on Saturday 17th January 2026.

Keynote speakers:

Dr Jim McAdam, agricultural and environmental research in NI Government sector and Queen’s University Belfast,

Dr Gail Heffner, author of ‘Reconciliation in a West Michigan Watershed’

Dr Hilary Marlowe, Girton College, Cambridge.

Tickets are £10, to be purchased at: https://letjusticeflow.eventbrite.ie

You can share information about the event using this flyer.

An IYM 2026 web page has now been set to provide information about Ireland Yearly Meeting 2026.

It is featured on the right-hand side of the quakers.ie homepage, making the latest information about IYM 2026 just a click away.

You can read this article in Dec 3, 2025 issue of The Guardian on the Guardian website. Thie post also contains a text-only version.

It is always encouraging when people who need us find us!

‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’

An ecumenical celebration of the coming of light in a time of deep darkness, held on Thursday, 18 December 2025, 6pm, Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge Villas, Rathmines, Dublin 6.

You can let others know about this event using this flyer.

This festive Churchtown Coffee Morning will take place on Tuesday 9th December during 10.30-12.00, and will be introduced by Stephen and Catherine Yeo.

Friends are also welcome to join on Zoom.

You can find more information, including the Zoom link for joining online, in this flyer.

You can find information about how some British Friends are putting their faith into action in the November 2025 BYM Faith in Action Newsletter. Be patient if it takes just a little while to download,

The Epistle from the Quaker Council of European Affairs General Assembly, held on Friday the 14th and Saturday, the 15th of November 2025 in Brussels, is now available here.

Greetings from FWCC Europe and Middle East Section! We are writing to ask you and your meetings to join us in a special campaign to support participation at the Europe & Middle East Young Friends (EMEYF)-EMES All Age Gathering, which will be held on the 8-15 August 2026, at Haus Altenberg, near Cologne in Germany.

We hope all Friends who want to attend will be able to – we don’t want the cost to stop anyone from participating.

EMES is all about bringing Friends together to build community. We need your help to make the gathering accessible to everyone who wants to come.

You can find more information about this fundraising drive and how to contribute in the full fundraising letter from the EMES Clerk, Ethel Livermore.

There will be an Irish Quaker Faith in Action (IQFA) Sale in Monkstown Meeting House on Saturday 6th December from 11am – 3pm. This is a great opportunity to start your Christmas shopping, meet F/friends old and new, and help raise lots of money to support worthy causes near and far!

You can help spread the word with others using this two-page flyer! We hope to see your families, friends and neighbours too!

Donations! We welcome donations of art, crafts, good quality books and toys, indoor plants, cakes and home produce. We will not be accepting donations of CDs, DVDs, clothes or bric-a-brac (crockery, furniture etc.). We will be accepting good quality current books only; books that are likely to be of interest to others. 20 books maximum donation per person.

Donations can be left into Monkstown Meeting House 6-9pm on Friday 5th December or 9-10am Saturday 6th December.

Parking! Please note there will only be a couple of parking places in the meeting house grounds, which will be strictly reserved for people with mobility issues. There is plenty of on-street parking on nearby roads, but please note you will need to pay via cash or app (the parking machines do not accept credit cards).

Thank you to everyone who has been busy crafting, knitting, making cards, jam and chutney, and to all those who are planning what to bake nearer the time. The Sale couldn’t take place without you!

It’s not too late to offer to help! Please contact Fiona Murdoch through the Office (office@quakers.ie) if you can help on a stall or help with setting up the night before, or clearing away Saturday afternoon.

With huge thanks to Monkstown Friends for kindly hosting the IQFA Sale this year.

See you on 6th December!