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.

FOLLOWING the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the participants in the multi-party negotiations dedicated themselves to the “achievement of reconciliation, tolerance, partnership, equality, mutual respect and the vindication of the human rights of all”.

A Protestant church leader met murdered Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen’s family today – and urged other youths not to risk their lives through pointless sectarian bravado.

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

Sectarian attacks on churches, schools and homes were today condemned as immoral by the north's four church leaders.