Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson calls for Catholics and Protestants to unite to end sectarian division at the annual DUP conference.

In a book launched last week in west Belfast, Tommy McKearney argues that the only way for republicans to now remove the border is for them to work with working class Protestants in an attempt to create a socialist Ireland. In his book, The Provisional IRA, From Insurrection to Parliament, he says: “Irish unity remains an aspiration for many – but only an aspiration. “A...

The Reverend Robin Roe. Irishman, Church of Ireland priest, British military chaplain, MC, Ireland and British Lions rugby international (plus Barbarians, London Irish etc). Rugby led directly to his Army duties as, when England played Ireland at Twickenham in 1952, Roe was one of two novice priests – both Protestants –

PROTESTANT church leaders yesterday made a pilgrimage to Londonderry's Bogside in a moving and historic gesture they hoped would symbolise fresh hope for Northern Ireland

Three in 10 see themselves as Northern Irish or Irish, and no longer consider themselves to be British

Timothy Garton Ash, writing in the Guardian displays the jarring sensibilities that comes inevitability from holding the sort of fuzzy authoritarian statist views that prevail these days. On the subject of the Swiss ban on new minaret construction... That is to put the clock of religious toleration back 300 years, to a time when even protestants in Catholic France could not worship in public. Of c...

"However there is nothing to suggest he will stand up this afternoon and say he is resigning....The Liberal Democrats are playing a stupid House of Commons game. If they force him out, Labour will vote for another Labour Speaker. They have been warned.", said a 'friend'!? of Speaker Martin. Another Labour Speaker? We see. Speaker Boothroyd was elected as a Labour representative to the House of Com...

Or so it would seem, judging from a survey by Pew Global on attitudes to torture among four US religious demographics - white Evangelicals, white Catholics, white mainstream Protestants and white unaffiliated. Some 62% of the former believe torture often or sometimes justified, as do 51% of Catholics, 46% of Protestants and 40% of the unafilliated. And approval rises with church attendance - 54% o...

Postmodern politics is absorbed with reaching the nebulous ‘middle ground’, so much so that the dialectic of principle is now utterly subsumed to sophistry. The campaigning creed is obsessed with seeming instead of what is, with justified hypocrisy instead of reasoned conviction. There is an infatuation with forms and moods, with promises and feelings, with actions that a man might pla...

The EVIL of sectarianism never sleeps. "A County Antrim man has said his family are being forced out of their home because of sectarian attacks. Chris McCaughan said a "republican element" in Rasharkin was targeting his family because they are Protestants. Mr McCaughan said the trouble had been going on for 10 years. The most recent attack was at the weekend when car tyres were slashed and a windo...