Newly appointed Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill made history over the weekend by becoming the first Catholic and first Irish nationalist to lead the country’s government in its 103 ...

Newly elected Prime Minister Michelle O'Neill of Northern Ireland speaks during a meeting of the legislative assembly in Belfast Feb. 3, 2024. O'Neill is Northern Ireland's first Catholic prime ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — The leader of Ireland's 4 million Roman Catholics on Wednesday defended the need for a separate school system for Catholics in Northern Ireland, an issue long debated in the divided ...

Retired PSNI Superintendent Gerry Murray has revealed how Catholic police officers were forced ‘underground’ to practice ...

Interfaith couples are still making concessions for their safety in similar ways Cushla and Michael do in Trespasses.

Religious identification has historically been salient in Northern Ireland as an ethnic-national identity marker. Thirteen years after the Good Friday Agreement that marked the start of the peace ...

A Catholic bishop in Northern Ireland condemned new regulations in the country that will require schools to discuss abortion access in the classroom. Bishop Donal McKeown of the Diocese of Derry, ...

President Joe Biden is traveling to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which established a deal to end a violent 30-year conflict between Catholic Irish republicans and ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Teenagers from Catholic and Protestant youth groups lit candles on a Belfast street in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, then listened solemnly to a warning ...

A superintendent who has retired after 52 years as a police officer says the PSNI needs to carry out a major cultural review.

Several Northern Ireland politicians, as well as Catholics and journalists, were targeted in bonfires that were erected for the Eleventh Night. A bonfire in the Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey, Co ...