The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland may just now be beginning to understand how much it relies on trust - now that it has so little of it. Yesterday’s publication of the truly shocking 2,600-page report by Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse found that rape was "endemic" in more than 250 Irish Catholic care institutions from the 1930s to the 1990s, and that the church in I...

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

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A Primate Engrossed In Thought A £12,000 "Recognition Payment" to the families of everyone murdered in the Northern Ireland "Troubles" ? Other people's money well spent, Robin Eames. I want the Church of Ireland to pay for British Humanist Society adverts on the sides of buses: any chance of that happening? There is a difference between a member of a terrorist group sent to meet his mak...

140 years after Gladstone helped reunite the Liberal Party around the issue of disestablishing the Anglican Church of Ireland, the issue of the link between Church and State has once again reared its head. The Telegraph yesterday reported that the Government is considering a report being drawn up in Downing Street on ways to reform

In light of the at-long-last publication of the damning report into institutional child abuse by the Catholic Church in Ireland, my best comment is to point you to two articles and a poem by Sean Matgamna, who has first-hand experience of the brutality of the Christian Brothers. ===== Savage Violence in Irish Schools: Why Did They Stand For It? 9 February, 2005 The little boy, Tommy, perhaps eight...

Mary O'Regan and others of like mind should consider moving to the one part of Ireland where abortion will never be legalised (because that would never be approved by all the main parties there), just as Catholic schools will never be abolished (as they will never be abolished in England, Scotland or Wales), and much else besides. If you still want to live in Catholic Ireland, then you can increas...

The Elections Ireland.Org website is produced in association with renowned Irish political commentator Seán Donnelly. It provides listings, and some analysis, of all general election results in The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since 1918. It also covers by-elections in Northern Ireland and Ireland from 1918 onwards, European Parliament elections in the region since 1999, and Iri...

When Senator Edward Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne to die at Chappaquiddick in 1969, he probably never expected a knighthood. When he said in the 70s that the Protestants of Northern Ireland should be ethnically cleansed and sent to England (chillingly reminiscent of the Balkan incidents sparked by his pal Bill Clinton and the EU,

Kind of ironic to read that the Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland's savings "bank" is refusing to allow depositers access to their cash! Heaven forbid. The PMS, set up in 1982, is a separate legal entity from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. The society's Colin Ferguson said nervous investors were moving their money because the PMS was not covered by the government's guaran...