What changes are planned and what is proposed? Noel Baker has the answers. 

The recent decision of the UK to begin the process of leaving the European Union calls for fresh thinking on what has become known as ‘the totality of relationships’ on these islands. 

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

President Michael D Higgins attended the launch yesterday of the 300th anniversary celebrations of one of Cork’s oldest churches.

Why does the State spend an annual figure of €6.75m on the Protestant Block Grant which supports Protestants who need it with school fees? asks Victoria White

They comprise 22% of the US electorate and are decisive, but they do not vote uniformly and while they want a president of belief, he or she does not have to be of their faith, says Jonathan Alter

Police in the North are investigating an arson attack on a Presbyterian church and neighbouring hall in south Belfast.

A REALLY posh new book celebrating Irish food and cooking has just arrived on my desk. HOME: Recipes from Ireland is Trish Deseine’s new book, and it feels like a love letter to her home country.

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”.

A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas hospital for hours, the largest US nurses’ union has said.

A Presbyterian clergyman from County Tyrone has died after getting into difficulties while diving off the County Donegal coast.

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.

I write in connection with Mr Ian Elliott’s sad experience as the chief executive for six years with the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, as recently reported in several newspapers.

PREACHER and prophet, a leader for his people in the wilderness and schooled in scripture, Ian Paisley’s encore last Monday was the welter of biblical anathema exchanged with his former deputy Peter Robinson and others once close to him.

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

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

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.

WHEN The Pogues sang “I’m a man you don’t meet every day”, they could have been referring to the acclaimed “Irish” Maori leader, Tipene O’Regan.

A Protestant clergyman who became the first from the North to address Sinn Féin's ard fheis has today told critics he wanted to help communities "move out of the past".

The Cork air crash disaster starkly shows how fragile life can be, Northern Ireland’s First Minister has said.

THE West Cork pensioner who is calling for a one-day boycott of Mass tomorrow has said anyone who agrees with her sentiments but doesn’t feel comfortable staying away from Mass could wear a green armband to church to show support.

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

Police in the North faced growing anger tonight after being accused of abandoning an area prior to a car bomb attack.

A stable future for the North would be the best monument to Cardinal Cahal Daly, mourners at his funeral heard today.

ALLOW me as the Presbyterian minister in Cork to make some comments on Steven King’s stimulating account of John Calvin (August 19).

A petition calling for British government help for nearly 10,000 investors who have lost millions in the collapse of the Presbyterian Mutual Society will be formally presented in the House of Commons today.

A Presbyterian minister who helped broker the 1994 loyalist ceasefire in North has died, it was revealed today.

Presbyterians across Ireland are being advised to write directly to the British prime minister and ask him to step in and rescue their savings.

A HIGH COURT jury has awarded €140,000 damages to a Co Donegal woman, after finding she was sexually assaulted as a young child over a two-year period in her own home by a former Presbyterian minister who gave her piano lessons.

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.

Tens of thousands of South Korean Buddhists are taking to the streets in anger over what they allege is pro-Christian bias by the administration of President Lee Myung-bak.

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

The PSNI has uncovered a security-force link to the murder of a Co Donegal teenager in Belfast 35 years ago.

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.

Loyalist and republican communities in Belfast were today among the first groups to benefit from a new Government fund to fight sectarianism.

JACK LANE (Letters, January 21), in his usual Pavlovian response to my contribution on the attacks on Protestants during the War of Independence, falls, perhaps unwittingly, into the well-worn tactic of blaming the victims for their own fate.

IN his letter headlined ‘Why IRA killers of the Pearson boys were guilty of a war crime (December 17), Brendan Cafferty gives what appears to be very damning evidence of republicans’ attitude towards Protestants during the War of Independence.

IN letters (December 4) on the awful killing of the Pearson brothers of Coolacrease in Co Offaly, Fr Brian Murphy OSB and Paddy Heaney fly in the face of facts.

RENTAL property is becoming synonymous with religious diversity.

Prime minister John Howard faced the humiliating prospect of losing his seat in Parliament, as well as his grip on power, in Australia’s elections today.

ONE of this week’s news spectaculars was Ian Paisley launching Dana Rosemary Scallon’s autobiography, All Kinds of Everything. Anywhere else, that would have been just another photo-op but in Northern Ireland it was an event of real significance.