Another patient at a Donegal nursing home has passed away, though the HSE says this case does not appear to be linked to a flu outbreak that killed six other elderly people at the same home.

Six bouquets of flowers marked the freshly dug grave of Margaret McGuire, lying finally beside her husband Thomas.

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CAMPING and mobile home operator Kelair Campotel is offering deals for €250 for a week in the month of June.

WITH all these cheap air flights to European capital cities, I’m a bit surprised that the Child of Prague hasn’t made a big comeback.

THE remains of the first house in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus were unveiled by scientists yesterday.

The remains of the first house in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus were unveiled by scientists today.

Pope Benedict XVI assured his followers in the Holy Land that peace is possible, as he ended his Middle East visit today by putting aside the contentious issues he has confronted and coming as a pilgrim to the site of Jesus’ crucifixion.

Pope Benedict XVI capped his Middle East visit today by putting aside the contentious issues he has confronted over the past week and making a pilgrimage to the site of Jesus’ crucifixion.

POPE Benedict XVI greeted tens of thousands of adoring followers in Jesus’ childhood hometown with a message of reconciliation yesterday, urging Christians and Muslims to overcome recent strife and “reject the destructive power of hatred and prejudice”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today appealed to Pope Benedict XVI “to make his voice heard” and use his moral authority to condemn the harsh anti-Israel rhetoric voiced by Iran’s hard-line president.

Pope Benedict XVI greeted tens of thousands of adoring followers in Jesus’ childhood home town with a message of reconciliation today, urging Christian and Muslim residents there to overcome recent strife and “reject the destructive power of hatred and prejudice”.

Pope Benedict XVI said today that reconciliation was the only way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and said the entire world needed to rediscover hope to end wars, poverty and financial turmoil.

Pope Benedict XVI will visit the Holy Land on May 8-15 in the first papal trip to the area since 2000.

YOU’VE heard it a hundred times: we’re losing sight of what Christmas is really all about.

Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas today by celebrating midnight Mass in St Peter's Basilica, where he urged people to set aside time in their lives for God and the needy.

Pope Benedict XVI decried the collapse of marriages, telling tens of thousands of young Catholics that he was praying a crisis in traditional family values does not become an “irreversible failure.”

Israeli warplanes hit TV transmission towers today in Lebanon, knocking the nation’s leading private network off the air and cutting phone links to some regions.

ISRAELI troops clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas on the Lebanese side of the border yesterday, while warplanes flattened buildings and at least 50 people were killed as fighting entered its second week.

A Hezbollah rocket slammed into a building today in the mainly Arab town of Nazareth, killing three people, including two children, Israeli authorities said.

Israeli troops clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas on the Lebanese side of the border today, while warplanes flattened buildings and killed at least 20 people overnight as fighting entered its second week with the US signalling it will not push Israel toward a fast ceasefire.

DAN BROWN’S novel The Da Vinci Code is just that — a novel, a volume of fiction by a very good fiction writer.

Three Jewish attackers entered one of Christianity’s holiest sites yesterday and began throwing fireworks, sparking a large riot in Nazareth, police said.

At least two people disguised as Christian pilgrims threw firecrackers into one of Christianity’s holiest sites today, sparking a large riot in this biblical town, police said.

Two people disguised as Christian pilgrims threw firecrackers into a revered church in Nazareth, sparking a riot in the biblical Israeli town, police said.

AN ITALIAN judge is to rule on whether a small-town parish priest should stand trial for asserting Jesus Christ existed, following a hearing yesterday.

Opening arguments were set to begin today in the case of an Italian priest who was accused by an atheist of breaking two Italian laws by asserting that Jesus Christ existed.

LAWYERS for a parish priest have been ordered to appear in court next week after the Roman Catholic cleric was accused of unlawfully asserting what many take for granted - that Jesus Christ existed.

Thousands of police fanned out across northern Israel and Jerusalem today to prevent possible rioting as a grieving and angry Arab community prepared to bury four Israeli Arabs gunned down by a Jewish soldier opposed to Israel’s impending pullout from the Gaza Strip.

Shots were fired in a market in the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth today, and there were reports of casualties, police said.

A Islamic fundamentalist with alleged terrorist ties was being held in a prison hospital today for the murder of a Dutch filmmaker who criticised the treatment of women under Islam.

SHELBOURNE have drawn French side Lille in the first round proper of the UEFA Cup, giving them a fighting chance of progressing to the group stages of the tournament.

Roman soldiers bearing torches and spears emerged from an olive grove, shoving and kicking a stumbling Jesus in a Passion play in his boyhood town, starring a local construction worker.

An Israeli court has indicted an Israeli Arab woman for planning a suicide bomb attack, the Justice Ministry said today.

At least three people were killed and 28 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in northern Israel at the beginning of the morning rush hour today, officials and Israel radio station said.

A fledgling truce between Israel and the Palestinians was facing a fresh challenge today, the first anniversary of the outbreak of violence.