The Church of Ireland said that the visit of a controversial evangelist to a congregation in Wexford was not timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the marriage equality referendum.

The Church of Ireland says the visit of a controversial evangelist to a congregation in Wexford was not timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum, writes Joe Leogue of the Irish Examiner.

In 1854, John Henry Newman, a well-bred English convert to Catholicism who had abandoned his career as an Anglican cleric to become a Roman priest, arrived in Dublin. He had been asked by Cardinal Paul Cullen to be Rector of the new Catholic University.

Six decorative windows, all over a century old, were damaged at St Mary’s Church of Ireland in Killarney, Co Kerry, at the weekend.

A Yankees fan has filed a $10m (€7.36m) lawsuit against two ESPN announcers contending they mocked him when he was caught on television sleeping in his seat during a game at Yankee Stadium.

This baseball fan is suing ESPN and Major League Baseball after falling asleep at a game.

Price: €695,000

As second suspect is discharged from hospital, the soldier's family plead for peace.

The funerals of the two farmers killed in an apparent murder-suicide in Co Carlow on Wednesday are likely to be delayed after their bodies were only released last night to their families.

Officials say an agriculture office was destroyed and other buildings damaged as tornadoes touched down in south-western Oklahoma.

The Church of Ireland and the Catholic Church will come together today to mark the graves of the poor people of Achill island, Co Mayo.

HE mixed in circles with the rich and the famous but Lord Thady Dunraven was far from being a “Lord of the Manor” in his beloved Adare.

A CHURCHMAN’S daughter had a miraculous escape yesterday when she escaped relatively unharmed from the plane crash that killed six people at Cork Airport.

THE funeral service took place yesterday of a Church of Ireland minister in the same church where he was married less than a week ago.

A CONGREGATION of around 400 attended the funeral yesterday of Millie Martin, the Fermanagh toddler murdered last week.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin yesterday led the Way of the Cross procession through Dublin’s Phoenix Park as part of the Good Friday ceremonies.

IN THE days and hours before the devastating cyclone that tore through Bangladesh’s coast last week, the performance of the early warning programme was a rare bright spot in a saga of catastrophe, disaster management officials said yesterday.

Hundreds of mourners assembled in Leeds Parish Church and hundreds more gathered outside for the funeral this afternoon of snooker professional Paul Hunter.

Two women were today ordained as priests in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral.

Four students from the Pontifical Irish College in Rome are to be ordained to the Catholic priesthood this year, it was confirmed today.

A CHURCH of Ireland Rector, forced to leave the North after vicious threats and intimidation from the Orange Order, spoke out last night about the controversial invitation to Order members to march in Cork’s St Patrick’s Day Parade.

Prayers were said at churches across Liverpool today in memory of murdered hostage Ken Bigley.

About 700 people attended a prayer service in Galway this afternoon for the victims of the Beslan tragedy and their families.

I WAS delighted to read Michael McAuliffe's letter referring to St Anne's Shandon (Irish Examiner, February 18).

The widow of British traffic policeman Ian Broadhurst led hundreds of mourners today at his funeral.

IF you fancy the West Cork country house lifestyle, then a former rectory will always fit the bill.

IT was the words of a Protestant clergyman that really upset me this week.

The New York firefighters who lost their lives on September 11 were remembered in prayers today by hundreds of their counterparts in the UK.