Light hearts and prodigious drinking mark the TwelfthBoisterous youth chime with more sedate older couples on Orange day out in BelfastMon Jul 13 2015 - 20:07
Carmel McDonnell Byrne remembers a difficult past‘In July 1965, my mother abandoned eight children and our lives changed forever’Sat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
After 29,000kms and 16 months, Irish world cyclist returnsBreifne Earley, who made journey to raise suicide awareness, will end trip in LeitrimFri Jul 10 2015 - 15:16
Irish Catholics can now trace ancestry online back to 1740sAlmost 300 years of parish registers to be made available by National Library of IrelandTue Jul 07 2015 - 22:28
Priest challenges belief in perpetual virginity of MaryFr Tony Flannery says scholars turned Jesus’s siblings into cousins to fit church’s viewTue Jul 07 2015 - 17:54
Long days means it isn’t easy being Muslim in IrelandRamadan in June involves fasting for 20 hours a day: no food, water, smoking or sexTue Jun 30 2015 - 01:00
Brady’s evidence raises questions about 1975 abuse investigationRetired Catholic primate’s role in looking into Brendan Smyth allegations unclearFri Jun 26 2015 - 10:23
Climate change: Cost of doing nothing ‘huge for Ireland’Climate justice conference told that State ‘sheltering behind intransigent countries’Tue Jun 23 2015 - 18:50
Climate action on fuels needed, says Mary RobinsonFormer president says planet on track to be 4 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levelsMon Jun 22 2015 - 22:31
An international African success story made possible by Irish Christian Brothers‘I’ve become someone, from nowhere, through people with big hearts’Sat Jun 20 2015 - 01:02
Battle of Waterloo bicentenary marked with Dublin serviceBattle concluded brutalising war, head of Church of Ireland tells Evensong serviceThu Jun 18 2015 - 19:56
Warm welcome for Pope’s ‘significant’ climate change messageUN special envoy Mary Robinson says encyclical shows matter is ‘moral issue of our time’Thu Jun 18 2015 - 14:25
Church accused of deceit and fraud in Smyth settlements caseCardinal Brady being sued in personal capacity following role in 1975 inquiryTue Jun 16 2015 - 21:29
Lay Catholics urge change in church teaching on contraceptionCall for significant lay involvement at Synod on the Family in RomeTue Jun 16 2015 - 01:00
Nigerian Catholic priests invited to serve in Kilmore dioceseBishop O’Reilly to discuss allowing priests to marry and appointing female deaconsMon Jun 15 2015 - 16:48
Massive heart attack almost kills RTÉ’s Michael LysterSports broadcaster to have pacemaker fitted after wife used CPR to save his lifeSun Jun 14 2015 - 18:44
Archbishop warns against complacency on child protectionMartin tells abuse survivor ‘you’ve touched our hearts, and our hearts are wobbly’Fri Jun 12 2015 - 18:25
Vatican tribunal could audit at least 12 Irish bishopsSome bishops faced criticism over handling of clerical child sex abuse claimsFri Jun 12 2015 - 13:01
Tributes paid to chef and critic Paolo Tullio at funeralHumanist ceremony held in crowded Examination Hall at Trinity College DublinThu Jun 11 2015 - 20:26
Vatican tribunal ‘must deal retrospectively’ with abuseTribunal will hold bishops to account for covering up child sex abuse allegationsThu Jun 11 2015 - 11:44
No change in priests’ role in civil aspect of marriage - primateDr Eamon Martin disputes whether bishops used word ‘threat’ over withdrawal of priestsThu Jun 11 2015 - 09:41
New Vatican department to deal with abuse cover upsStep to deal with bishops seen as significant achievement by new CommissionWed Jun 10 2015 - 15:01
Irish Muslims urged to reach out to neighbours during RamadanHolocaust survivor to be guest of honour at event at Islamic Centre at Coolmine, DublinWed Jun 10 2015 - 01:00
A bishop, a priest, and the air that they breathed‘No one steps in the same river even once’Tue Jun 09 2015 - 04:30
Catholic bishops to discuss result of same-sex marriage referendumRole of priests in civil aspects of wedding ceremonies to be topic at summer meetingMon Jun 08 2015 - 01:00
Threat to separate church and civil ceremonies was a crude scare tacticExpense and inconvenience involved would have one certain outcome: the abandonment of Catholic church weddings by even more couples in favour of civil weddingsMon Jun 08 2015 - 01:00
Magna Carta exhibition opens at Christ Church in DublinArchbishop of Dublin in early 1200s was seminal document’s second named witnessThu Jun 04 2015 - 20:21
Traditional Christian values reaffirmed by new Presbyterian moderatorLGTB people told church is not homophobicTue Jun 02 2015 - 08:07
‘O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?’Commemorative service for deceased ‘Irish Times’ colleagues in Dublin next SaturdayTue Jun 02 2015 - 01:00
Archbishop ordains nine deacons at MaynoothFourteen ordinations to the Catholic priesthood in Ireland are expected in a year described by college president as ‘remarkable’Mon Jun 01 2015 - 01:00
Decline in number of Irish Presbyterians continuesMembership down almost 40% since 1975 as annual General Assembly opens in BelfastSun May 31 2015 - 21:02
Church has ‘much to reflect on’ after referendum - ArchbishopArchbishop Eamon Martin welcomes the raised awareness of issues faced by gay peopleSun May 31 2015 - 15:57
The teetotal virgin twins known as G&T turn 60Identical twins and consecrated virgins Gemma and Triona King are 60 today. Their devout, non-drinking, no-sex lifestyle doesn’t curtail their lust for lifeFri May 29 2015 - 06:00
Library represents new chapter for Dún LaoghaireControversial dlr Lexicon library is officially openedWed May 27 2015 - 18:57
Same-sex marriage vote an ‘unmitigated disaster’ for ChurchPeople ‘no longer willing to listen to speeches and sermons on morality from the church’Mon May 25 2015 - 20:41
President attends Mass celebrating Oscar Romero’s beatificationEl Salvador has ‘special place in my heart and my political consciousness’Sun May 24 2015 - 21:48
‘It’s not easy being a Yes Roscommon voter’Patsy McGarry reflects on why his native county voted No to same-sex marriageSun May 24 2015 - 17:58
All churches in Ireland in need of ‘reality check’The family won the same-sex marriage referendum for gay peopleSun May 24 2015 - 16:54
Murdered El Salvador archbishop Oscar Romero to be beatifiedÓscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated by a right-wing death squad during Mass in 1980Fri May 22 2015 - 14:17
Aislinn centre marks sixth anniversary of Ryan reportChristine Buckley remembered during day for survivors of institutional abuseThu May 21 2015 - 18:11
Iona Institute chair criticises Catholics calling for Yes voteDr John Murray says supporters of marriage referendum have rejected their faithThu May 21 2015 - 16:11
Catholic priest advises Protestant guidance on referendumPriest ‘unconvinced by many of arguments offered by both sides’Thu May 21 2015 - 14:15
