Call to Europe Ireland

THE Arts Council has just told us that grants of around £10,000 to each of three bands who took part in the annual Brian Robinson UVF commemoration parade have been paid out in full.

Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’

A Filipino man who had his car burned out and home attacked during violence in Ballymena has pleaded with rioters to stop, telling them “we are not here to destroy your community”.

Michael D Higgins calls on UN to use ‘exceptional powers’ to ensure aid flows to Gaza

Bellaghy chairman shot dead by LVF in 1997

The pontiff is to issue a scathing papal encyclical directly linking rampant capitalism with irreversible environmental catastrophe and rising global inequality.

First Jesuit pontiff who attempted to return the church to the people and away from clericalism

An independent public inquiry into the murder of GAA official Sean Brown must be established without further delay, the Court of Appeal has declared.

President Michael D Higgins has said that to say the Irish people are anti-Semitic is a "deep slander" and it is a very serious business to do so simply because people disagree with the actions of the...