As Church of Ireland members, who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, we were not consulted as the Bishop of Down and Dromore and Archbishop of Dublin drafted the resolutions on sexuality before General Synod this week, which stigmatises any sexual relationship outside opposite-sex marriage as not ‘normative’.

PROOF that something is rotten in the state of the North came at the weekend with the resignation of Ian Paisley as moderator of his own Free Presbyterian Church.

The lack of progress in Northern Ireland’s peace process is eroding public interest in politics, the Primate of Ireland’s Anglicans warned today.

The Church of Ireland Synod begins its annual three-day meeting today in Dublin.