A number of the paper's early staff, including Patrick Fogarty, had worked at The Nation newspaper.

The paper later moved to the Irish Farm Centre in Bluebell, before relocating to Donnybrook and then to the headquarters of St Joseph's Young Priests' Society in Merrion Square, Dublin.

When David Quinn resigned in 2003 to work for the Irish Independent, Simon Rowe, a member of Opus Dei, was appointed as editor.

Simon Rowe resigned after only nine months with the newspaper,[4] over the publication of an article that criticised the Irish bishops' conference.

The paper has a number of journalists and guest contributors, including Mary Kenny (founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement), the psychiatrist Patricia Casey, former TD and government advisor Martin Mansergh, Martin O'Brien (Northern Correspondent), Breda O'Brien, Peter Costello(Books editor), Baroness Nuala O'Loan, and John McGuirk as well as former editor David Quinn and editor-in-chief Garry O'Sullivan.

[13] In March 2012 the Irish Farmers Journal sold it to a group led by the paper's managing editor Garry O'Sullivan[14] and is published now by Mr O’Sullivan’s company Grace Communications.

[20] The Irish Catholic has only failed to appear on one occasion, during the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland during which Dublin was in chaos.