Kya deLongchamps says a home office should be devoid of domestic distractions and a dedicated area will make a physical space a ‘psychological sweetener’.

IT WAS a €40 conference table in white, but something in the elegance of the executive grey trim, said quality.

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Ousted Rehab bosses Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery are almost certain to be forced to attend a public grilling to clarify still-unanswered questions about the charity’s finances before the Dáil’s summer break.

A civil action brought by a contractor against Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has been dismissed, but an order for €12,412 was made against her husband Michael.

Tom Hardy is set to star in the new 'Batman' movie.

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.

Leaders of the Ulster Defence Association confirmed today that it had decommissioned all weapons under its control.

A group addressing the legacy of the Troubles in the North has made a direct public appeal today for the IRA to co-operate with its work.

The men appointed by the British government to recommend ways of addressing the legacy of the Troubles in the North are due to appear before an Oireachtas committee in Dublin today.

A controversial proposal to pay £12,000 (€13,500) to the families of all those killed in the North's troubles – including dead paramilitaries – will not be implemented, the British Government announced today.

The North’s political parties were challenged tonight to back unprecedented proposals aimed at healing the sectarian wounds left after decades of violence.

The two men who headed a group on dealing with the legacy of the North's Troubles today hit back at critics of their proposal to pay the families of victims £12,000 (€12,911).

A major report on how to deal with the legacy of the North’s Troubles is to be released this month, it emerged today.

GARDAÍ raided 22 so-called “head shops” nationwide yesterday on suspicion that the premises were selling controlled or illegal drug products over the counter.

British and Irish members of parliament will tomorrow be briefed on what is being described as an effective truth commission on the North's Troubles.

A security force cover-up of a loyalist pub bombing that killed 15 people in 1971 is to be raised at Westminster in the UK tomorrow.

You can’t deny the state — British or Irish — the exclusive right to use legitimate force and, at the same time, hold it to a higher standard than paramilitaries.

The panel set up to deal with the North’s troubled past is hopelessly divided, the DUP claimed today.

The British government was accused today of failing to deliver on a pledge to fund an investigative unit re-examining murders from the North’s Troubles.

A former Church of Ireland primate and a one time Catholic priest were today appointed by the government to draw up proposals about how the North should come to terms with its bloody past.

Retired Archbishop of Armagh Robin Eames is to be presented with the Tipperary International Peace Award next week, it was revealed today.

Retiring Archbishop of Armagh and Church of Ireland Primate of All-Ireland Dr Robin Eames has been announced as the recipient of the 2006 Tipperary International Peace Award.

Outgoing Church of Ireland Primate Robin Eames today issued a final appeal for both sides in the North to heal the sectarian divide and avoid plunging a new generation into bitter hatred.

Archbishop of Armagh and Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland, Robin Eames, is to retire today at the age of 69.

The Church of Ireland Primate, Archbishop Robin Eames, has put the sale of a row of east Belfast shops he partly owns on hold.

The head of the Anglican Church in Ireland today appealed to politicians to show the courage needed to secure a political breakthrough in the North.

THE Primate of the Church of Ireland, Archbishop Robin Eames, intends to retire at the end of the year.

IN his column (Irish Examiner, April 22), Ryle Dwyer cannot “understand the mentality” of those who had difficulties with Fr Iggy O’Donovan’s invitation to Rev Michael Graham to concelebrate Mass on Easter Sunday.

ALTHOUGH I must have written about 250,000 words since starting this column over four years ago, I’ve never had occasion to use the Irish word “lúdramán”. Perhaps I shouldn’t use it now either in this, my last column.

ALTHOUGH I must have written about 250,000 words since starting this column over four years ago, I’ve never had occasion to use the Irish word “lúdramán”.

ARCHBISHOP OF Armagh, Dr Sean Brady, and his Church of Ireland counterpart, Archbishop Robin Eames, have launched investigations into an Easter Sunday Mass in Co Louth where a Church of Ireland minister concelebrated with priests in a Catholic Church.

The head of the Church of Ireland is visiting Irish troops serving with the British army in Iraq.

CHRISTIAN Churches in Ireland have suffered because of a lack of ecumenism and largely have themselves to blame for losing touch with society, Church of Ireland primate Most Rev Robin Eames said last night.

More must be done to help children caught in the “intolerable” poverty trap in Ireland, a senior cleric said today.

The Church of Ireland Primate Dr Robin Eames has described statistics on alcohol abuse and young people as frightening.

The Church of Ireland Primate, Archbishop Robin Eames, has praised the response of the Irish people to last Sunday's tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean.

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AN Anglican church commission sharply criticised the US Episcopal Church yesterday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologise and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.

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

Singer Billy Joel was involved in his third car accident in two years when he slammed into a house on a wet road on Long Island.

Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop Robin Eames has been appointed chairman of an international commission tasked with preserving the future of the Anglican Communion.

Church of Ireland Archbishop Robin Eames has been appointed to chair a commission established to discuss the crisis sparked by the election of an openly gay bishop to the US Episcopal Church earlier this year.

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