Former President Mary McAleese says Northern Ireland is changing towards having a nationalist majority.

Such hostility is predictable when you remember that just 19 women have sat at the Cabinet table, the top table in Irish politics, writes Daniel McConnell.

A culture of sexism and misogyny in Irish politics in decades past is laid bare in a book about the role of female politicians.

Dr Scally has produced a report that sets a standard. It is most unIrish in that it does not obfuscate, writes Alison O’Connor

In the winter of 1847, the people of Ireland were suffering from a devastating famine

Latest: Pope Francis has said he hopes the World Meeting of Families will bring "renewed encouragement to families everywhere".

The steady separation of church and State in recent years is good for both, the Agriculture Minister has said ahead of the Pope's visit to Ireland.

‘Humanae Vitae’ is the defended gateway that has held the ground against further ideological incursions into the ecclesial sheepfold, writes Margaret Hickey.

Former President Mary McAleese said she cannot go to the World Meeting of Families when the Pope visits Ireland in August, as it does not include LGBTI people.

Okay folks, it’s showtime! The late PJ Mara’s open invitation to electioneer and party would have nothing on President Michael D Higgins, writes Gerard Howlin.

The President of the High Court has approved arrangements governing access to documents to be used for an application by the State’s corporate watchdog for appointment of inspectors to Independent News and Media plc.

It’s an unlikely pairing, I know, but my mind has been drifting between former president Mary McAleese and former footballer Jamie Carragher.

What should concern Pope Francis much more is that so many Irish Catholics are turning away from Christianity, writes Victoria White

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone says she shares former president Mary McAleese’s view that the Catholic Church is misogynistic, and she intends to raise these concerns in person when she visits the Irish College in Rome later this week.

Doctors will be unable to legally provide abortion pills for up to seven months after any legislation is passed — potentially blocking availability until summer 2019.

Latest: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he will consider a call from the former President Mary McAleese for an inquiry into the church's handling of child abuse allegations against Fr Malachy Finnegan.

The ‘empire of misogyny’ referred to by Mary McAleese will not be reformed by the Pope, who thinks the genders have different, divinely ordained roles, says TP O’Mahony

On Wednesday the Vatican announced that five people — four men and one woman — having been credited with the requisite number of miracles, are to be canonised.

Former President Mary McAleese has said the Catholic Church must reform or the current generation in Ireland will “walk away”.

President Michael D Higgins said he was “concerned and upset” when the Vatican barred former president Mary McAleese from taking part in a conference.

The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, says he was not consulted about a decision to exclude former president of Ireland Mary McAleese from a Catholic women’s conference in the Vatican.

A leading Catholic cleric has said his office was not consulted over a decision to deny former president of Ireland Mary McAleese access to a conference in the Vatican.

The €10.5m regeneration of a historic convent and school as a heritage centre has been described as a living showcase of one of Ireland’s greatest social justice pioneers.

An academic who had access to one diocesan archive reports accounts of physical abuse and medical neglect and argues that the files are not accurately reflected in the McAleese Report into the Laundries, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

ANY appraisal of how the office of President has fared under recent incumbents — and President Higgins too — must come to a positive, warming conclusion.

The Taoiseach is “very confident” there will be no border controls after Brexit.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he remains very confident there will be no need for passport controls on the Irish border post Brexit.

The McAleese inquiry into Magdalene laundries was informed in 2012 about “disturbing” infant death rates in excess of 50% at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald and her department have been accused of misleading the UN by claiming the McAleese report made “no finding” in relation to State liability with regard to Magdalene Laundries.

Mary McAleese has said homophobia should be consigned to history in the North.

TOMORROW a policy document signed by former president Mary McAleese and 130 other international signatories will reach a UN conference in New York. The document supports efforts by a Catholic lobby group to convince the Vatican to lift a 48-year-old veto on contraception.

Schoolboy, Paddy Flynn, has brought Traveller issues very much to the fore in recent weeks. In this edited extract from his PhD project, Trinity student and author Frankie Gaffney, argues the Irish 'state' has and continues to be a 'cold house' for Irish Travellers and it is time to remedy that before making any exhortations to pride in our nation. 

Decades on from bloody killings during Northern Ireland’s troubles many victims’ families remain impatient for change to ensure hatred does not pass down through generations, the former President of Ireland Mary McAleese has said.

Tyrone 3-17 Queen’s University 0-11: Mickey Harte handed out seven debuts to inject some young blood into his team, and they responded with a commanding performance as the Dr McKenna Cup holders began their title defence with a resounding win at Healy Park.

The Department of Justice accused the BBC of damaging the reputation of Martin McAleese in an 11-page complaint about its “seriously flawed” documentary on the Magdalene laundries broadcast last summer.

Fermanagh 1-21 Antrim 0-11

Former President Mary McAleese said that the “absence of empathy” in a New York Times article on the death of six Irish students in Berkeley prompted her to file a complaint with the newspaper.

The Catholic Church has been accused of hypocrisy over its opposition to marriage equality by former president Mary McAleese.

Former president Mary McAleese is set to intervene in the marriage equality referendum campaign just days before polling and make a significant speech about why her family is voting yes.

I am writing in response to Paddy Monaghan’s letter (Irish Examnier, April 21) in which he criticises Ms McAleese’s stance based on the fact that it is in opposition to the views of some churches in Ireland. 

Former President Mary McAleese and Justice Kevin Cross have reassured middle Ireland that a ‘Yes’ vote on same-sex marriage will not undermine the the rights and status of families.

Perhaps an acute apprehension prompted former President Mary McAleese to disclose her intended vote in the marriage referendum, notwithstanding the consistent backing for this proposition in opinion polls (‘We must back marriage equality poll’, Irish Examiner, April 14).