The Knock Novena starts today - with around 150,000 people expected to attend over the next nine days. Fr Kevin Kiernan, from the Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin, is the guest speaker during at 3 o'clock and 8 o'clock Masses today. The trained psychotherapist has helped homeless people, asylum-seekers and refugees during his career. Parish priest of Knock, Fr Richard Gibbons, says the novena is family friendly:
Bishop of Elphin and Achonry, Kevin Doran, is the guest speaker on Sunday - he says the novena is very popular:
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