The second Lisbon Treaty referendum will be a defining moment for Ireland, Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin warned today.

DURING his address to the Humbert Summer School, Cardinal Seán Brady expressed exactly the reasons why I was opposed to the Lisbon Treaty.

THOSE who are concerned with the absence of ‘Christian values’ in the Lisbon Treaty would do well to remember that Hitler and his Nazis were purported Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, while the Czar of Russia, deposed in the revolution of 1917, was another whose ‘Christianity’ did little to benefit the serfs.

HOSTILITY of the European Union to religion may have contributed to a rejection of the Lisbon treaty in June’s referendum, according to Cardinal Sean Brady.

A MINISTER branded Edna Kenny a “vulgar puppet” jerked around by others as political summer sniping last night exploded into a full-blown war of words.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has launched a stinging attack on the Taoiseach during the Humbert Summer School in Ballina this morning.

Former politicians John Hume and Austin Currie are to be jointly honoured for their role in the North's civil rights movement.

One of the country's leading political summer schools has urged French President Nicolas Sarkozy to clear his diary and attend a public debate on the future of Europe.

Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy is to be honoured at the Humbert Summer School for his work on piloting garda reforms, it emerged today.

THE sisters and partner of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney were last night hailed as “icons of courage” for their campaign for justice against his killers.

The Govt must work harder to “sell” the troubled EU Constitution to the Irish people during the next year, a minister said today.

The fight for justice by the sisters and partner of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney helped force the IRA to finally end its armed campaign, it was claimed today.

Shell must free the Rossport Five by immediately lifting its court injunction against them, it was claimed today.