HOPING to avoid the need for an organ transplant is the vendor of this North Cork family home, which is called Camlin and located at Mitchelsfort, near Watergrasshill.

It seems opposing abortion legislation is the only commandment the Church is concerned with, writes Michael Clifford.

Peace campaigners in Belfast have staged a second rally in as many days to demonstrate their opposition to the recent unrest.

Peace campaigners in Belfast have staged a second rally in as many days to demonstrate their opposition to the recent unrest.

The Union flag could soon be flying over Belfast City Hall again, a senior loyalist politician claimed today.

In a historic ceremony last night, the first female Church of Ireland Dean of Limerick and Ardfert was installed at St Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick.

A couple, both of whom claimed to have developed a mental adjustment disorder after their 12-year-old daughter’s arm was pricked by a pin in a hotel bed, have been awarded €18,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

IT was a case of the Plough and the Pilgrims in Athy when the logistics of organising the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin next June were compared with those for the ploughing championships.

THE Methodist Church has a long tradition of unwavering opposition to gambling.

THE British Government has not grasped the thorny issue of the North’s violent past, one of the main drivers behind the peace process has said.

Protestant church leaders were warmly applauded into Derry’s nationalist Bogside today in a historic gesture they hope will help bridge the city’s traditional divide.

Protestant church leaders will today make a symbolic visit into the nationalist Bogside to meet with the families of the Bloody Sunday victims.

PRO-LIFE campaigners have clashed over whether the Lisbon Treaty will force Ireland to compromise its ban on abortion.

Thousands attended a march in the North today for an end to violence in the Middle East.

Two clergymen who witnessed the decommissioning of IRA weapons will be honoured for their role in the key chapter of the peace process, it was announced today.

The leaders of Ireland’s four main churches will bring a message of peace to the Holy Land today.

THE Dalai Lama yesterday praised an Irish Buddhist centre that will care for terminally ill people.

IRELAND’S war dead were honoured at a ceremony in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, yesterday.

PLANS to restore Cork’s historic Huguenot cemetery were finally rubber-stamped last night.

WITH the latest imprimatur of the International Monitoring Commission (IMC) conferred on the IRA, combined with the decision of Sinn Féin to support the police and the criminal justice system in the North, it was hardly unexpected that it was described as the removal of the “final impediment” to devolution.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will today review the prospects of securing power-sharing at Stormont in March.

Direct official dialogue is to open up next year between the Government and leaders of dozens of religious communities based in Ireland, the Dáil heard today.

SOME of the world’s leading historians have backed a campaign against controversial plans to build on one of only two historic Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe.

GARDAÍ are investigating the possibility that a fire which has put a thriving west Cork restaurant business in jeopardy may have been started maliciously.

I WRITE regarding a comment by Mary Leland in an article that concerned the anniversary of the Huguenot Church in Cork (Irish Examiner, Property, March 11).

CAMPAIGNERS vowed last night to fight controversial plans to build on one of only two historic Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe.

EVEN by DUP standards, Dr Ian Paisley’s refusal to accept the collective word of the head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning displays an incoherent political philosophy riddled with conspiracy theories.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party today had talks with the clergymen whose witnessing of IRA arms decommissioning they have questioned.

A north Belfast Methodist church was targeted with paint bombs today in a sectarian attack.

It would appear that Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness may not have done the IRA’s final act of decommissioning justice in heralding it as merely “historic”.

FOR three weeks in September, General John de Chastelain and his two colleagues on the international decommissioning body were driven around in a van with blacked-out windows to secret places where vast quantities of IRA arms awaited them.

Methodist minister Harold Good has has said he is "certain, totally certain" that the IRA has disarmed.

THE Provisional IRA has destroyed its vast arsenal of weapons and explosives, the head of the international decommissioning body will confirm today.

EVERY day more than 30,000 children die as a result of extreme poverty and injustice. That’s one child every three seconds. Most of these deaths are preventable.

SOME owners of old, protected buildings in Killarney are allowing them to go derelict so that they can be more easily removed from the list of protected structures, executive planner Fiona O’Sullivan told Killarney Town Council.

THE Primate of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop of Armagh Seán Brady, has described Pope Benedict XVI as a man of great ability coupled with an uncluttered vision.

A footballer was given a 30-year ban for headbutting the referee during at an amateur soccer match.

A WIDESPREAD and significant increase in the incidence of racially motivated attacks, both physical and verbal, following the referendum on citizenship was reported by church leaders in all areas.

More than 800 members of the security forces who died in Northern Ireland during the Troubles were honoured today at the unveiling of a new memorial.

Ireland’s church leaders hailed today’s talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair as “extremely positive”.

The Church of Ireland and the Methodist Church have signed an historic agreement to join the two churches together.

In a meeting in Armagh today, the leaders of Ireland’s four main churches (Dr Russell Birney, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr Sean Brady, Roman Catholic Church, Dr Robin Eames, Church of Ireland and Rev Winston Graham, Methodist Church in Ireland) called for an immediate end to the street violence which has disrupted communities in Belfast in recent weeks and issued the following statement.

THOUSANDS of people yesterday stood in silent defiance of the paramilitary gunmen as Belfast united in a bid to end the killing spree.