Pews Before Pints: Forty Churches, Three Lads, and a Year of Sundays

How a Sunday morning adventure turned Mass into an experience worth waking up forJanuary 20, 2026On RTÉ Radio 1 this Thursday morning, from 11.00am, Oliver Callan will interview three young men, Luke Doogue, Neil and Stephen Patterson (Pictured above with Bishop Denis Nulty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin), on their experience of putting “pews before pints” in their own lives.  See their story below:This journey didn’t start with holiness; it started as an alternative to twelve pubs —