Through the efforts of its outward-looking people and its seafaring traditions over the centuries, Derry has managed to extend its influence far across the globe. Its strategic position on the cusp of ...

The Ulster Plantation of 1609, intended to replace native Catholic Irish residents with Protestant settlers from ... More recent divisions in Northern Ireland date to the 1921 treaty that ended ...

ONE hundred years ago, on March 3 1925, the Irish Boundary Commission arrived in Ireland ... all Catholics tended to be nationalists who sought inclusion in the Free State and all Protestants ...

The Catholic nonprofit organization Napa Institute is pushing for more collaboration among Catholic and Protestant leaders to promote cultural values and aims that are common to both communities.

The Catholic Church in Ireland must review its structures ... against the late Fr Malachy Finnegan. With Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown due to retire next month, there has been speculation ...

St. Patrick may be Ireland’s most famous saint, but a new biography for young readers sheds light on another great Irish holy man: St. Kevin of Glendalough.

A Londonderry bishop has urged parishioners to “remain steadfast” amid reports of a conservative Catholic organisation ... bulletins of parishes across Co Derry on Sunday, Bishop Donal McKeown ...

Protestants and Catholics proclaim the same good news but expect different responses. As a Baptist preacher’s kid, I never gave any serious thought to the question of whether Roman Catholics ...

“The madams [who ran the brothels] hadn’t feared the British state, but by 1925 holy Catholic Ireland was coming about. They knew the writing was on the wall. They had to reconcile with that.

The Catholic Police Officer Guild of Northern Ireland has said it is “deeply concerned" after a former PSNI officer went public about the challenges he fac... Wednesday, 2 April 2025 Newsletters ...