Traffic in a British city centre has been brought to a standstill by a man who climbed a lamppost and refused to come down.

Political instability in the North is hurting the most vulnerable, church leaders warned.

It was reported this week that hedge fund manager and Bank of Ireland bond holder David Tepper earned, if that is not a corruption of the word, €2.5bn last year.

A presidential advisory panel says telephone information collected in bulk by the National Security Agency and used in terror investigations “was not essential to preventing attacks” and has proposed sweeping changes to US government surveillance programmes.

The first woman bishop Ireland or the UK has been installed by the Anglican Church.

DON’T call me a “Polyester Protestant”. There’s nothing flimsy about me. I’m an Irish Linen Protestant, woven with the blood, sweat and tears of my exiled Huguenot ancestors.

The Church of Ireland has appointed its first ever female Bishop.

Protestant church leaders have historically looked ‘the other way’, when it came to dealing with the abuse and neglect children were subjected to in their institutions.

There was surprise and delight in Ireland when the Archbishop of Buenos Aires was announced as the new leader of the world’s 1.2bn Catholics.

I wish to comment on Victoria White’s sobering article (Opinion, Jan 3) — “Justice needed for the survivors of and victims of Bethany House abuse”.

Minutes before this man had been talking about the sanctity of each human life. Now he was dismissing the unmarked graves of the babies who died needlessly at Bethany and the stories of the home’s 25 survivors by saying it wasn’t “technically” a Church of Ireland home.

New signing Rory Patterson scored a hat-trick as Derry City all but booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Setanta Sports Cup with an emphatic 4-0 first round, first leg win over Lisburn Distillery at the New Grosvenor Stadium.

Cardinal Seán Brady in his Easter homily today said there was "no hiding place for abusers in the Church in Ireland".

The Archbishop of Canterbury tonight said he “had no intention of criticising or attacking” the Catholic Church after an interview in which he appeared to suggest the Church in Ireland had lost all credibility over the child abuse scandal.

Al-Qaida terror cells have trained a group of female suicide bombers to attack Western targets, according to a former White House counter terrorism adviser.

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Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the UK and America, according to US reports today.

Cork City have had a poor start to the season but will be looking for their first win in tonight's Setanta Cup clash with Portadown at Turner's Cross, kick-off 7.45pm.

CORK CITY are still in search of their first win of the season as they take on Portadown in Group 2 of the Setanta Cup at Turner’s Cross tonight (7.45).

An angry Bill Clinton went on the offensive in a TV interview, defending his handling of the threat by Osama bin Laden.

Broadcaster ABC made editing changes to its controversial mini-series The Path to 9/11, after former Clinton administration officials complained that scenes about them were fabricated.

The American dream is alive and kicking for four Northern Ireland U21 players.

Cork City are looking for the three points against Portadown to guarantee them top spot in Group One of the Setanta Sports Cup and home advantage in the semi-finals.

CORK CITY boss Damien Richardson will be satisfied with nothing less than a victory over Portadown in tonight’s Group One Setanta Cup clash at Turner’s Cross (7.45pm).

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Roy Millar believes his Northern Ireland U21s have reasons to be cheerful as they prepare for competitive action again.

GROUP TWO leaders Cork City will be close to full strength for their first Setanta Cup test north of the border, when they take on Portadown at Shamrock Park this evening.

Former US President Bill Clinton is set to publish his memoirs – called My Life – in late June, it has been announced.

THE FBI failed miserably over several years to reorganise and respond to a steadily growing threat of terrorism, the commission investigating the September 11 attacks said yesterday.

George Bush’s national security adviser insisted that the US president fully understood the threat of terrorism before September 11, 2001, but no intelligence foretold the deadliest attack on American soil.

WHITE House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice yesterday appeared to confirm allegations by former counterterrorism aide Richard Clarke and former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill that the administration was fixated on Iraq.

WHITE House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said that in hindsight if anything might have helped stop 9/11 it would have been better information about threats inside the United States.

One of the first priorities of the Bush administration after taking office was “the elimination of the al-Qaida network”, US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said today.

US National security adviser Condoleezza Rice testified today “there was no silver bullet that could have prevented” the worst terror strike in the nation’s history.

US mational security adviser Condoleezza Rice will provide a detailed account of the Bush administration’s anti-terror actions before the 2001 attacks when she goes before the September 11 commission today.

IN all the uproar over Richard Clarke’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission, I think we’re missing the larger issue. The focus now is all on whether the Bush administration focused on the terror threat prior to the attacks on 9/11.

The September 11 terror strikes on the United States could have been prevented, an independent commission probing the outrage is expected to conclude.

US National security adviser Condoleezza Rice will go before the federal panel reviewing the September 11 attacks next Thursday, it has been announced.

WHEN she testifies publicly before the September 11 Commission, Condoleezza Rice will be making an election-year defence of the Bushs’ administration’s anti-terrorism policy prior to the 2001 attacks.

US President George W Bush has agreed to allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to appear before an independent panel investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks following weeks of insisting that she would not testify.

IT’S manna from heaven for the Democrats. The testimony to the 9/11 commission given by former White House counter-terrorism official, Richard Clarke, is a gilt-edged opportunity to damage George W Bush.

THE White House backed down yesterday and agreed to let National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testify in public under oath before the commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks.

US NATIONAL Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is waging a vigorous defence of her actions in every public forum except one: the September 11 Commission where she would be questioned about the government's failure to prevent the terrorist attacks.