Hello Irlandia Weekly News 16th March 2023

Poland’s main news stories over the past week have included:

• the Sejm passes a resolution to defend the good name of Saint Pope John Paul II amid a backlash against the Franciszkańska 3 program

• an Instytut Pamięci Narodowej investigation concludes that the death of anti-communist priest Franciszek Blachnicki in 1987 was due to poisoning

• there is sadness and recrimination over the death by suicide of a 15-year-old boy publicly revealed as a sex abuse victim, and

• the Polish Embassy in Dublin highlights a forthcoming lecture entitled ‘Who really broke Enigma?’.