We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

A hard Brexit will force communities in the North to consider the possibility of a united Ireland, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

Some experts suggest overindulgence leads Catholics to early graves, and some have suggested the Famine led to genetic changes, writes Victoria White

Social injustice is injustice no matter from which side of a political or religious divide your opinions are formed.

The problem with Brexit is that it seems to restate the choice: are you Irish or are you British? says Victoria White

There is nothing worse in politics than a failed assassination, writes Gerard Howlin.

Imagine if South Africa’s last white president FW de Klerk had, rather than recognise change as manifested by Nelson Mandela, insisted non-whites would be second-class citizens forever?

The deep divide between Catholics and Protestants makes the coming together to honour the dead on both sides fraught with problems.

Martin O’Neill says he understands what James McClean is going through, having himself experienced hostility from the crowd at Windsor Park when, as a young Catholic during the Troubles, he first broke into the Northern Ireland team in the early 70s.

"I was spitting fire and angry at everybody in life."

In tendering her resignation this week as principal of St Patrick’s National School in Greystones, Co Wicklow, Eileen Jackson has stood up for Christianity in the face of tribalism.

A number of groups representing victims of The Troubles are set to join forces for a mass Rally in Belfast today.

Ulster Protestantism associates Gaelic with republicanism, which we oppose, and our cultural insecurity has informed the DUP’s rejection of an Irish Language Act, says Richard Irvine

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has laid a laurel wreath at the site of an IRA Remembrance Sunday bombing in Northern Ireland Enniskillen.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has laid a laurel wreath at the site of an IRA Remembrance Sunday bombing in the North.

Stanley’s prescription for combined secular instruction and separate religious instruction in common schools may find greater acceptance in the 21st century, says Patrick F O’Donovan.

An Garda Síochána are correct that imbalances in recruitment will, over time, produce an unbalanced police force attempting to serve an increasingly diverse community.

How healthy is it to use our national school system to preserve the cohesion of a faith community, asks Victoria White.

Nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland, Gerry Adams has said.

Economic pragmatism played a huge part in Martin McGuinness’ transformation from IRA leader to peace-seeking statesman, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Why does the State spend an annual figure of €6.75m on the Protestant Block Grant which supports Protestants who need it with school fees? asks Victoria White

Did you know that Bandon once had seven Orange lodges?

The decline of Protestants in the South was no accident before and after 1916.

While taoiseach in 1982 Charles Haughey fulfilled the invitation to the White House for St Patrick’s Day that had been extended to his predecessor Garret Fitz-Gerald. Mr Haughey then invited the president to Ireland on a state visit.

New Selected Poems 1988-2013

Irish politicians are the most incompetent in the world, according to journalists from America’s National Public Radio (NPR).

The honeymoon of the amiable Argentinian may be over, as the recent synod showed the tensions that exist between conservatives and liberals within the Church, writes John Lloyd

Regarding the article “We are washing our hands of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” (Victoria White, July 30) I want to tell you my personal history.

A new visitor centre has just opened in Flanders commemorating the 30,000 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War.

Fewer than half the public believe religion is a good thing for the country, with younger people in particular failing to be impressed.

Dr Dorothy Price helped eradicate TB here, but her role as a medic to a West Cork flying column has been overlooked, writes Sharon Ní Chonchúir

It’s a very easy question to ask Martin O’Neill, but a fiendishly difficult question for Martin O’Neill to answer.

WILL there be truth now, or will we go on hiding?

The transport minister has told a men-only lunch at an Irish society event in the United States that courage is needed to make the future equal for all including gay and straight and male and female.

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Davis (1814-1845), UCC Emeritus Professor John A Murphy , assessed the patriot’s significance in a lecture on March 11, 2014 in Mallow, Davis’s birthplace. Here is the full text of his address.

Humanists are often criticised for their lack of religious affiliation.

Star rugby players such as Brian O’Driscoll and Paul O’Connell would be fabulous ambassadors for an all-Ireland rugby bid for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, and if the public get behind it we’ll [have a] very good chance of landing rugby’s biggest prize, Sports Minister Leo Varadker has said.

Listening to the Joe Duffy show last week I was reminded of the contempt the state and Catholic Church has for dumped children, and the very sad history of the victims.

WHO created the fee-charging schools? The State, not parents speeding up to the school gates in red Ferraris and not Protestants in wide-brimmed, black hats.

An evangelical, non-denominational church which has nearly 700 members from 32 countries is going hi-tech to deliver the word of God to its flock.

THE Garda Siochana had a difficult and sensitive task to carry out in persuading Willie Frazer and his motley crew not to come to Dublin tomorrow to demand that the Irish flag be removed from Leinster House (where it wouldn’t be flying anyway because it doesn’t fly over the houses of the Oireachtas when the Dáil and Seanad are not sitting).

Significantly more people in Northern Ireland consider themselves British as opposed to Irish, answers to a census question have indicated.

Significantly more people in Northern Ireland consider themselves British as opposed to Irish, answers to a new census question have indicated.

Nationalism is in crisis as more Catholics define themselves as Northern Irish, Peter Robinson claimed.

Diarmaid Ferriter’s Ambiguous Republic portrays an Ireland where change came very slowly. Alan Dukes wonders how much, if anything, has changed

More than twice as many Catholics as Protestants have been appointed to the board of Sport Northern Ireland, it was claimed tonight.