Bishop of Derry Edward Daly has died a hero after he raised a blood-soaked handkerchief and guided a dying teenager through British army gunfire on Bloody Sunday, a grateful relative said.

Retired bishop of Derry Edward Daly was a peacemaker during some of the darkest days of Northern Ireland’s Troubles.

The Americans have their historic photograph of six marines raising the Stars and Stripes during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Second World War; the Russians still revere the picture of their troops flying the flag over the Reichstag in the Battle of Berlin on May 2, 1945.

Update: 5.20am: The Funeral will take place on Thursday of the former Bishop of Derry, Edward Daly.

A young Irish nun killed in the earthquake in Ecuador was an inspirational example of womanhood, mourners at her funeral service have been told.

General John Maxwell ignored calls from the viceroy to spare the lives of those on the periphery of the Rising and instead pursued martial justice, allowing defendants little more than 10 minutes in their ‘trials’ to tell their side of the story, writes Sean Enright

We look at the timeline of events during Easter Week in 1916.

The State’s 100th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Rising takes place at the graveside of the 14 executed insurrection leaders at Arbour Hill, Dublin, tomorrow.

This is how the men and women who would be involved in the looming rebellion spent this week 100 years ago — some deeply involved in its planning, others still oblivious.

Another glance at the activities 100 years ago this week of key figures in the upcoming Rising, as recorded by authorities at the time, or recalled later by the participants.

Details of what was being done this week 100 years ago by those planning the Rising, and how it was observed by British authorities in Ireland.

Some are household names, others have been overlooked but a move is on to honour, as a group, all those from the West Cork region who fought in Dublin during the Easter Rising.

BISHOP Edward Daly’s call to end mandatory clerical celibacy to ease problems facing the Catholic Church (News, Sept. 13) echoes an ancient refrain in Ireland.

I REFER to Claire O’Sullivan’s article (Church will not take bishop’s celibacy remarks too kindly, Sept 14) which refers to retired Bishop Dr Edward Daly’s questioning of the need for the continuation of the long-established rule of mandatory celibacy in the Catholic Church.

THE ASSOCIATION of Catholic Priests (ACP) has said the Vatican “won’t take too kindly” to calls from the former Bishop of Derry to end clerical celibacy.

Allowing priests to marry would help ease the problems facing the Catholic Church, former bishop of Derry Edward Daly has claimed.

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FORMER Bishop of Derry Edward Daly has hit out at the recent report which named Fr James Chesney a prime IRA suspect in the Claudy bombing in 1972.

A BISHOP’S prayers were answered yesterday when direct flights were re-introduced between Cork and Belfast.

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.

Families of the Bloody Sunday dead today entered Londonderry's Guildhall to read the Saville report they hope will exonerate their loved ones.

Families of the Bloody Sunday dead hope today their epic campaign to clear the names of their loved ones will finally end with the release of the long-awaited Saville Report.

POPE BENEDICT’S pastoral letter will be released today. Whether it will mark an ending or a beginning remains to be seen.

Britain's intelligence services may have masterminded an IRA human bomb strategy which killed soldiers and civilians in Northern Ireland in 1990, a lobby group claimed today.

THERE were fears yesterday that the original, hand-written words and music of Ireland's national anthem could leave the country after an auction in April with a guide price of €1.2 million.

A 48-year-old man has told the Saville Inquiry in Derry that he saw British soldiers riddle a car with bullets just as a young couple were about to get into it on Bloody Sunday almost 32 years ago.

A former paratrooper who claimed he was prepared to shoot Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness before Bloody Sunday, today admitted recurrent nightmares may have become more real to him than actual events.

A former paratrooper who was threatened with contempt of court proceedings for refusing to appear before the Bloody Sunday inquiry is to give evidence from behind a screen today.

A former soldier who refused to give evidence about Bloody Sunday is to be reported to the British High Court for contempt of the inquiry, it emerged today.

Bloody Sunday was described as a ‘‘bad day’s work’’ by a soldier in Londonderry in the hours after the killings, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness was today described standing ‘‘shocked and disbelieving’’ in Londonderry’s Bogside in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday.

A man who says he saw three of the Bloody Sunday victims shot beside him also claims there were up to three gunmen in Londonderry’s Bogside that day, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

One of the youths shot dead on Bloody Sunday pleaded with people to back off from a confrontation with troops earlier that day, the inquiry into the killings heard today.

A lawyer acting for five men who were members of the Official IRA in 1972 has come forward to the Bloody Sunday inquiry offering a "positive and possibly very, very significant impact" on proceedings.

There was no threat to British army paratroopers immediately before they opened fire on unarmed demonstrators on Bloody Sunday, former Bishop of Derry Edward Daly has told the Saville Inquiry.

Former Bishop of Derry, Edward Daly, is to testify before the Bloody Sunday inquiry today.