Complaints about noise pollution have led to the silencing of the bells of an old church on Dublin's southside.

A CONTROVERSIAL Anglican church that upset some Christians in 2009 with a risque billboard of Jesus’s mother looking dejected after unsatisfying sex with Joseph has rolled out another provocative publicity stunt.

The Irish Bishops Conference in 1996 lay out the procedures for handling allegations and suspicions of clerical child sex abuse in a document entitled “Child Sexual Abuse: Framework for a Church Response.”

US president Barack Obama was fascinated by records proving his Irish ancestry, a vicar who unearthed them has revealed.

An entrepreneur is trying to buck the recession and capitalise on President Barack Obama’s visit to his ancestral village of Moneygall, Co Offaly by designing commemorative T-shirts.

BUILT 140 years ago to save souls, Kinsale’s Fisherman’s Hall has been born again, several times over.

Hundreds of well-wishers lined the streets today to bid farewell to reality television star Jade Goody.

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Hundreds of mourners gathered together tonight at a memorial service held for a family and a teenage friend who died after their light aircraft crashed in a remote mountain region.

British funnyman Ricky Gervais laughed through both his parents' funerals because he believes "humour has no taboos".

A Dublin cleric, better known as the city’s Black Santa, has raised €30,000 for charity in the annual Christmas sit-out on Dawson Street.

Art experts and conservative clerics are holding an unusual “trial” in the hometown of Leonardo da Vinci: concerned about the legions of fans of the The Da Vinci Code who take claims in the book as gospel truth, the mock tribunal aims to sort out fact from fiction.

Art experts and conservative clerics were putting the blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code on trial in the art master’s home town tonight.

Dozens of Irish people remain unaccounted for in the aftermath of the earthquake disaster in South East Asia, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said tonight.

The Venerable David Pierpoint was installed in the high-profile position of the Church of Ireland Archdeacon of Dublin today at a ceremony in Christchurch Cathedral.

THERE were mixed feelings of anger and relief in the town of Soham following the convictions of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr.

The vicar who buried The Who’s John Entwistle has quit his job following claims of a romantic involvement with the star’s girlfriend.

The families of murdered Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman cannot face being there on the first anniversary of the deaths, police said today.

TWO people were injured and a third left in shock yesterday after an axe man “ran amok” before launching a frenzied attack inside a historic abbey.

Three people have been injured after an axe man went berserk in Waltham Abbey, Essex.

CHILDREN at a Christmas carol service in Britain were left devastated after a vicar told them Santa Claus was dead.

A vicar is to conduct Sunday morning church service in a pub this week in an attempt to take the Gospel into pastures new.

A vicar has preached his way into the record books by delivering a sermon lasting 28 hours and 45 minutes.