Two men have been charged in relation to an arson attack on an Orange hall and a church in Co. Donegal last week.

Despite his ultimate conversion, perhaps opportunistic, to the principles of democracy, Ian Paisley’s hate-filled rhetoric left a trail of dead bodies in its wake. TP O’Mahony reviews a mixed legacy.

NOBODY does an eye roll like Stephanie. Like last week. On a lovely morning, the cherry trees outside dappled with sunshine, she’s at her desk talking to a client who should be in a room with me discussing her career, but who, we gather by eavesdropping on Steph’s conversation, is in fact at our old premises in Northumberland Rd.

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

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Police investigating the murder of prison officer David Black have made another arrest this morning.

The family of murdered prison officer David Black denounced his killers as cowards at his funeral.

The family of murdered prison officer David Black denounced his killers as cowards at his funeral today.

Colleagues from the Northern Ireland Prison Service shouldered the coffin of the first warder killed by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland for 20 years at his funeral today.

Gardaí last night released a man they had been questioning in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black.

THE bodies of two ministers have been exhumed from a Presbyterian churchyard in to make way for a couple who have bought the building to use as a family home.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork led a multi-faith ceremony yesterday as the city marked the national day of commemoration for the first time.

A former police officer from the North working for a security services company has been shot dead in Afghanistan.

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.

Presbyterian Mutual Society (PMS) savers in the North suffered a fresh blow today after a judge ruled that those with less than £20,000 (€23,025) should not receive interim payments from the administrators.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will hold talks today with the North's political leaders on the future of stricken financial institution, the Presbyterian Mutual Society (PMS).

The British government must take further steps to boost unionists’ confidence ahead of the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will tell the British Prime Minister tonight.

Loyalists in the North are moving towards decommissioning their weapons, the head of the Presbyterian church said today.

Twenty-three former moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland have written to the British and Irish Governments seeking help over a collapsed savings society.

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

The four main churches in the North challenged politicians today to bury their differences over the future of the province’s education system for the sake of children.

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland expressed its grave concern today at the political impasse which has prevented the Stormont Executive meeting since June and called on ministers to sit down together without delay.

A Protestant clergyman forced out of a Co Derry town in the 1980s for extending the hand of friendship to a Catholic priest today said he was saddened unionist politicians have rejected a bid to put the controversy to rest.

The church founded by the Reverend Ian Paisley is tonight expected to elect a new leader to replace the 81-year-old minister.

A meeting of the Free Presbyterian Church to elect a new moderator which had been due to be held tonight has been called off because of the weather.

IRELAND has become a country obsessed with sex, money and new technologies to the detriment of values that might make us happy, according to one of the country’s leading Christian commentators.

IT IS almost certain that as we speak Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern is dispatching a civil servant to remonstrate with Dr Trevor Morrow, a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

A controversial move by the Presbyterian Church to reach out to homosexuals will be on the agenda when the congregation meets for its annual assembly.

THE former head of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the North is to head up an all-island child protection board.

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.

Devastating evidence that loyalist paramilitary informers were allowed to get away with a series of murders in the North will be revealed today.

Presbyterian Church leaders urged Sinn Féin today to publicly support the police in the North.

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.

The Reverend Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists today held groundbreaking talks with the Catholic Church at Stormont.

DUP leader Rev Ian Paisley is to hold historic face-to-face talks with the Catholic Primate of All Ireland Sean Brady.

IN his feature article headlined ‘Sectarian wind up’ (Irish Examiner, June 26), Niall Meehan seems either to ignore or conveniently forget the facts surrounding the killing of Protestants in the west Cork area in the 1920s.

THE recent report on how leading European publications had described Northern Ireland as the “race hate capital of Europe” is a distinction the North could well do without.

A coalition of American churches sharply denounced the United States-led war in Iraq today, accusing Washington of “raining down terror”.

The son of a butcher and brother of a professional footballer was tonight elected as the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Efforts to secure an end to the IRA’s campaign ultimately proved fruitless, writes Ryle Dwyer.

A Presbyterian church was attacked in Strabane in Co Tyrone in the early hours of this morning.

The Presbyterian Church in the North has said it has lost all trust in Sinn Féin following the IRA's alleged involvement in the Belfast bank heist.

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party was under pressure today to spell out whether they wanted a political deal in Northern Ireland or not.