Pope Francis will visit Ireland in 2018. Whether he will venture into the North isn’t yet known but, later in the year, Belfast will welcome another distinguished visitor.

Opponents of gay marriage have been likened to Christians who used the Bible to support slavery, by a senior Anglican bishop.

EVEN the imaginations of those revered masters of comic opera, Gilbert and Sullivan, could not have devised a more topsy-turvy world than the august, 19th century, Courts of Justice in the Strand yesterday.

HUMAN slavery is a bigger scourge now than it was 200 years ago, former British Tory leader William Hague will warn today.