Church leaders have come together to condemn the attack last Monday on a Galway mosque.

Aidan Turner tells Susan Griffin how his Ross has matured in the latest series of Poldark

Politicians must have the courage to put the most challenging issues at the centre of the negotiations, church leaders in the North warned.

The RNLI celebrated the acquisition of two new inshore lifeboats from private donation, with naming ceremonies in Cork towns over the weekend.

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We would like to challenge ex-President Mary McAleese (Irish Examiner, April 14 ) on her view that “the country must vote in favour of the May 22 vote if it wants to finally live up to its constitutional promise to cherish all children equally”.

There’s not a lot of information out there about second and third level scholarships. So Aileen Lee has been doing some research.

April 2014 is a very special time for the Irish people, but particularly the people of Clontarf, as it is the celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of The Battle of Clontarf.

Former Co-op bank chairman Paul Flowers has been arrested in the UK in connection with a drugs supply investigation, police said today.

The Glastonbury Festival’s move into the mainstream has continued after the BBC announced blanket coverage of this year’s event including slots on Songs Of Praise and The One Show.

Protests outside, purchasers inside, bargains to be had and businesses gone, some €14 million back in the bank or in the pockets of vendors, and Chinese buyers making a mark — yesterday’s Allsop auction of 125 Irish property lots spanned a range of human emotions.

Most men in Ireland are 34 when they marry, while women are on average 32.

Former US president George H.W. Bush has been admitted to a hospital intensive care unit “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever”, but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said.

LAST week we had a perfect example of how this country works.

Mississippi's governor has described the refusal by a predominantly white church to allow a black couple to get married there as "unfortunate".

Michael Bernard Beckwith, of the move ‘The Secret’, has a reassuring message for an economically uncertain Ireland, says Lisa Jewell

Four years ago, staff and students from Methodist College applauded the cup-winning exploits of Craig Gilroy, Paddy Jackson and Adam Macklin.

We welcome moves to include Westbank Orphanage, Greystones, in inquiries into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

MARGARET Thatcher may have been dubbed the Iron Lady for her political style; but in matters sartorial her taste proved equally non-negotiable.

The Life and works of Alfred Bestall - The Rupert Bear 90th Anniversary Edition

PASTOR Terry Jones seems like an unlikely candidate for the title of America’s Enemy No 1, but that is what he has become, almost overnight, in his attempt to lead his band of Christian soldiers against the sword of Islam.

President Barack Obama and his family today attended Easter service at a historically black Methodist church in south-east Washington.

MAN moves mountain — and over 40 weeks and three summers, the gallops of Shanagore, Innishannon were created.

HUNDREDS gathered in a Limerick church last night for a candlelit vigil in remembrance of murdered rugby captain Shane Geoghegan.

Jordi Murphy’s Leinster Schools caned their Ulster counterparts for four tries in the Schools (Under-18) Inter-provincial Championship at Donnybrook today.

Church leaders in Omagh have reversed their decision to stay away from a 10th anniversary service for victims of the bomb, it emerged today.

A SETTLEMENT was reached in the High Court in a dispute between the Department of Education and four private Protestant schools over a teachers’ redeployment scheme which they claimed adversely affects their right to choose who they employ.

A SETTLEMENT was reached in the High Court in a dispute between the Department of Education and four private Protestant schools over a teachers’ redeployment scheme which they claimed adversely affects their right to choose who they employ.

IRELAND will get one last shot at redemption when they take on Italy in the final outing of the U18 Six Nations Festival at Cork Institute of Technology today (2.30pm).

A SIMPLE flower-laying ceremony has marked 15 years since the IRA bombing in Warrington.

THE gardaí and army are the least religiously diverse occupations in the country.

To mark the National Day of Commemoration yesterday, President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern participated in the ceremony at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham in memory of all Irishmen and women who died in wars or on service with the UN.

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

A DUBLIN primary school to open next year, operated by a Vocational Education Committee (VEC), could mark the first significant step in altering the Catholic church’s domination of primary education.

SOME members of the Jewish community in this country have expressed dismay that next week’s census will not include a category box for Jews in the section on religious beliefs.

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).

British church leaders are urging families to see new Disney movie The chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, because it promotes Christian values.

A Catholic priest who witnessed the completion of IRA disarmament was tonight embroiled in a fresh political storm after he refused to accept that the Provisionals were involved in the £26m (€37m) Northern Bank robbery.

The priest who witnessed IRA decommissioning provoked fury after he compared the unionist community to Nazis for their treatment of Catholics in the North.

Sectarian attacks on churches, schools and homes were today condemned as immoral by the north's four church leaders.