Early governments acted as if Irish independence amounted to Rome Rule. It took the revelation of the clerical sex abuse scandal to end such deference, writes Ryle Dwyer

Those heading to the capital today for the parade or to attend the All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park should make allowances for traffic and transport disruptions arising from today’s parade when travelling to Dublin.

Homeless charity, the Peter McVerry Trust is developing social housing with new apartments, including one-beds in the pipeline.

A performance of Messiah, 275 years after the famous oratorio made its debut in this country, will be one of the highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival, writes Cathy Desmond.

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

A papal nuncio, for the first time in more than 60 years, is to visit Skibbereen next weekend.

Conor McGregor could hardly have done more to make New York sit up and take notice, writes Brendan O’Brien

A former lay worker with the Church of Ireland has been jailed for 13 years for the rape and molestation of 14 young boys over the course of 40 years.

There are plenty of tricks and treats on offer to keep families busy this mid-term, writes Ellie O’Byrne

A former Church of Ireland lay worker has apologised to 14 boys he abused while he was a volunteer at St Patrick’s Cathedral.

A former Church of Ireland lay worker has pleaded guilty to abusing 14 young boys at various dates and locations over the past five decades.

Plans by the Athlone, Co Westmeath-based Hodson Bay Group to expand into the booming Dublin hotel market have been halted by an appeal from An Taisce.

The owner of the four-star Radisson Blu Hotel in Dublin city centre is planning a 10-storey extension which would add over 100 rooms.

Majella Cullagh will perform at a fundraiser next week for St Mary’s in Cork, writes Jo Kerrigan

The capital’s streets went into lockdown yesterday for the centenary parade, but tourists were still able to make their way to the city’s top attractions.

In preparation for Dublin’s 2016 centenary year St Patrick’s Day parade, a series of workshops took place with young people around Ireland to discuss their hopes for the future. The result is an explosion of colour and imagination as the theme, ‘Imagine if…’, celebrates our national vision for the next 100 years.

Here’s some great things to do around the country this weekend.

Emotion without reason is dangerous. Reason unhinged from imagination is sterile, writes Gerard Howlin.

IT’S the morning after Aoibheann McCaul’s first appearance on RTÉ 2’s mockumentary Hardy Bucks.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny and Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan represented the Republic yesterday at Remembrance Sunday events in Northern Ireland.

It started at age 12 with diazepam, given to him by a friend who had dipped into his mother’s prescription tablets. Unfortunately for Charles Lane, what started out as an innocent enough act set him on a path towards drug addiction — cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin — and ultimately prison.

The first of the Irish funerals for the victims of last week’s balcony collapse in Berkeley, California, take place in Dublin today.

Books of condolence opened in Dublin, Cork, and Galway as flags on state buildings flew at half mast.

THE backpackers who got naked on the sacred mountain in Borneo aren’t a great advert for the phenomenon we call ‘gap year’.

A former lay worker with the Church of Ireland is to stand trial accused of sexual abuse of 10 boys between 1977 and 1990.

Cathy Desmond took a bite of the Big Apple some thirty years ago — and now that she’s back for more, she finds a calmer, quieter place.

It’s the country’s most internationally renowned celebration, and everybody knows it. All across the world, people with itchy feet are making bucket lists — Brazil for Carnivale, India for Holi, and Ireland for St Patrick’s Day.

Dublin has gone green for Patrick’s Day, with festivities culminating in a street party tomorrow, expected to attract more than 500,000 spectators. 

The life and death of Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa will be marked in his native West Cork this summer, a century after his Dublin funeral proved a rallying cry for the 1916 Rising.

The gunman who murdered two New York City police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred of police and the government and an apparent history of mental instability that included a suicide attempt a year ago, it has emerged.

Fitting tributes

Taoiseach Enda Kenny led tributes to Irish and British war dead as fallen soldiers were remembered.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan have laid wreaths at solemn Remembrance Sunday events in the North.

The homeless crisis is going to get worse despite a €10m budget allocation, while projects working with drug users had their funding "chiselled away" during the consecutive austerity budgets.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Seán Brady, the leader ofthe Catholic Church in Ireland.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.