“YOU don’t win a referendum campaign in six weeks,” Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin remarked over the weekend as he discussed the preparations that helped the Yes side win.

The head of Ireland's Anglican Church, Archbishop Robin Eames, will hold a ground-breaking meeting with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at Stormont today.

AS history shows, few issues have greater potential to cause division and strife among the people of the world than the vexed question of religion.

THERE comes a time in Disney films when you have to suspend disbelief. That moment arrived yesterday for Northern Ireland, and this island as a whole, with the declaration by the IRA that it has ended its armed campaign and all that it implies.

I WAS horrified by the insulting language used by the president of our nearest neighbour, Mrs Mary McAleese, when she said Protestants were being taught to hate Catholics.

Dutch Muslims and Christians called for an end to a cycle of retaliatory vandalism of mosques and churches as slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh was cremated, a week after his killing by a suspected Islamic radical.

IAN PAISLEY Jnr says that the speech on Northern policing by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Sean Brady, contained a “bellyful of bigotry” and could “set back police-community relations by years”.

Sinn Féin has condemned loyalist death threats against a priest in north Belfast.

AS Ireland strives for its intellectual freedom and tries to get away from the coat-tails of British colonialism, we have much to learn from the Jews with their storytelling tradition and their ability to preserve their identity, art and culture.