After a working life was dedicated to carefully scrutinising loans, perhaps retired bank manager Denis Hobson is best placed to help couples make the best investment of their lives.

Four multi-denominational primary schools will open this September, according to Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan, in an effort to provide parents with an alternative to faith-based education.

This week, the Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) will meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny to discuss the absence of choice in our schools and the painfully slow progress being made on what was to have been one of the defining projects for this Government — changes to school patronage.

Weddings will be able to take place in the grounds of hotels and other approved wedding venues after a ruling by the attorney general.

A law banning humanist wedding ceremonies outdoors may be challenged by the Humanist Association of Ireland, who describe it as 'arbitrary'.

ON Jul 26, Paul Murray and Catherine McGeehan married in Harvey’s Point Hotel in Donegal. Catherine walked up the pier to the shores of Lough Eske, while the guests sat on either side.

The Constitutional Convention has recommended the offence of blasphemy be removed from Irish law.

Removing the offence of blasphemy from Irish law will be discussed by the Convention on the Constitution this weekend.

Couples seeking secular weddings are facing delays, due to a lack of accredited Humanist solemnisers.

CHOOSE to get married on a cliff off the Irish coast.

Tributes were today paid to former Labour Party minister Justin Keating, whose death was announced.

Ground-breaking talks between the Government and religious bodies began in Dublin today.