It seems extraordinary that a Catholic parish council would offer an invitation to an individual who has taken positions fundamentally at odds with core teachings of that Church.

Schools should be allowed to decide on the right balance between their religious ethos and the rights of staff despite plans to give legal protection to gay or divorced teachers, a Catholic schools leader has said.

THREE centuries of Irish records will be published online today, detailing more than 40 million records of births, marriages and deaths between 1742 and 1958.

DISCIPLINE is more important than religious education when parents choose a school for their children, a study has revealed.

THE young priest's vestments were crumpled from his travel case and his uneven hem revealed runners wet and muddied from the Normandy shore.