Couples should be upfront about spending habits once their relationship gets serious. That doesn’t mean that they have to forsake their independence says Grainne McGuinness but it means when times are tough, they will be more united

The State’s best known marriage counselling service has put the brakes on plans to redevelop the €70m Garda regional headquarters site on Harcourt Street in Dublin.

If we vote yes on Friday, we will be replacing one form of criminalisation with a new form of criminalisation, writes Independent senator Jim Walsh 

Failure by the yes side to deliver a knockout blow in the marriage equality debate has led to a surge of bets on a no victory, bookmakers have revealed.

The minister responsible for Túsla says its decision to cut funding for the Catholic marriage agency Accord has nothing to do with the referendum on same-sex marriage.

Allowing same-sex couples to marry will not impact on adoption laws or redefine marriage, the independent chairperson of the Referendum Commission said.

The Government has rejected claims that State funding for marriage preparation courses provided by the Catholic support agency Accord was withdrawn because of the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage.

The Government is denying that funding for Catholic counselling service Accord, which provides marriage preparation courses, has been cut because of the church's position on the marriage referendum.

Significantly fewer Irish people believe that a couple who have a child ought to be married — but more consider marriage to be a life-long commitment.

A Catholic bishop has said that an “unacceptably low” number of couples are undertaking pre-marriage courses (PMC) run by the Church’s counselling service before their wedding day.

PITY Sharon Osbourne, 60, photographed last month looking sad, as she holidayed alone at an exclusive Mexican resort, amid rumours that her 31-year marriage to rock star, Ozzy, was on the rocks after he relapsed back into prescription drug and alcohol addiction.

Social media and the internet are the fastest-growing problems facing Irish marriages and relationships, according to the country’s largest marriage advisory agency.

There has been a 12% increase in the number of married couples seeking counselling.

As we mature as a couple we need to adapt together to changes in our lives, says Rachel Borrill.

Japanese car maker Honda is recalling 304,000 vehicles worldwide over air bags that may inflate with too much pressure in a crash, potentially causing injury or death by sending metal and plastic pieces flying.

ALMOST two thirds of families experiencing marriage problems have financial difficulties, according to Catholic marriage counsellors, ACCORD.

FINANCIAL pressures mounting on couples are causing sleep deprivation, anxiety and alcohol abuse, and are increasingly a factor in troubled relationships.

MARRIAGE guidance counsellors have warned that overuse and misuse of the internet is placing extreme pressure on some couples.

More and more Irish couples are concerned about their partner's internet use, according to ACCORD, the Catholic marriage care service.

Union leaders reacted with anger today to the “terrible news” that banking giant Lloyds is to axe another 1,300 jobs.

MORE marriages are breaking down because of financial and gambling worries and an alarming rise in the use of internet porn and cyber sex.

Honda launched a sporty new hybrid today hoping to attract younger buyers to the green car market.

THE Catholic marriage service Accord has unveiled new figures which show a 10% increase in the number of couples seeking marriage counselling in 2009.

A NEW house, in a new village scheme, and a new, 2010-registered car to boot — builder Darren Hourihan is out to buck the trends at Rosscarbery’s Courtyard Market scheme.

THE number of people attending Gamblers Anonymous (GA) meetings around the country has doubled and in some places trebled over the past six months as people can no longer afford their betting habits.

ONE in three couples say money problems are ruining their marriage, new figures reveal.

More couples are going to counselling because of financial worries.

THE number of babies born outside marriage is at an all-time high, figures have revealed.

The work of Junior Chamber Ireland (JCI) has been praised by Anthony Dinan, group managing director of Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) Ltd, owners of breakingnews.ie, the Evening Echo, Irish Examiner, Sunday Business Post and 15 other papers in this country and the UK.

TWO reports on Irish marital trends, one issued yesterday and the other last month, illustrate fundamentally opposite faces of a rapidly changing society.

MARRIAGE is for life, say couples who took part in the first ever study conducted in Ireland.

BISHOP Willie Walsh today launches a unique survey of Catholic married life and couples in the first seven years of marriage.

THE Labour Party’s women and equality officer Kirsi Hanifin (Irish Examiner letters, January 20) takes me to task for stating (Letters, January 16) that domestic violence is not a gender issue.

ACCORD, the Catholic marriage advisory and counselling agency, yesterday denied reports it was embroiled in a dispute over files wanted for the investigation into clerical child sex abuse in the Dublin Diocese.

The Catholic Church's marriage advisory service is reportedly refusing to co-operate with a request from the Archbishop of Dublin to trawl through confidential files for allegations of abuse.

IN her letter headlined ‘New policy needed on domestic violence’ (Irish Examiner, February 4), Senator Mary White refers to domestic violence research published last July by the National Crime Council.

HAVING children, working long hours and trying to manage money are propelling more and more couples into marriage and relationship counselling, new statistics show.

THOUSANDS of Irish people are finding the pressures of modern life unbearable judging by the latest report from Accord, the voluntary marriage counselling agency of the Catholic Church.

Ireland's largest marriage and relationship counselling service has said it provided advice to a record number of clients last year.

Anyone proposing or accepting a Valentine’s Day offer of marriage in Dublin will have to wait months for a place on a preparation course, it emerged today.

THE National Crime Council (NCC), in association with the ESRI, recently published the first large-scale study of the nature, extent and impact of domestic abuse against women and men in intimate partner relationships.

The FTSE 100 Index ended today firmly in the red after a poor opening on Wall Street dragged banking stocks down.