Daniel O'Connell

In a wide-ranging interview, former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader John Bruton talks to Fr Chris Hayden about the Church-State relationship in Ireland, politics and conscience, constitutional nationalism and violence, and the liberalisation of abortion

The proposal that a street in Dublin city centre should be named after the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume has considerable merit and deserves to be taken seriously by the authorities.

Ireland's first non-denominational cemetery has reopened after nearly a century and a half.

DEAR Theresa Villiers, it is with more than a little embarrassment that this column writes to agree with you.

Speaking at last year’s Daniel O’Connell summer school in Co Kerry, Professor Mary Daly, a member of the Irish Government-appointed Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations said: “ the appropriateness of inviting members of the British royal family to Dublin in 2016 depends on context.