Shaun Woodward will today be urged by the first licensed restorative justice schemes to operate in the North to release state funding to enable them to operate.

A special conference is being held in Stormont on Monday to discuss the issue of suicide in Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein will host the day, on the theme of ‘Suicide – A Preventable Crisis’.

The Catholic church in Northern Ireland has started to instruct schools to disband Amnesty International support groups because of the human rights organisation’s pro-abortion stance.

Unions in the health service are reportedly asking their members to begin a campaign of non-co-operation with the recruitment freeze being imposed by the HSE.

The increasing rate of marriage break-up in Ireland is due to be highlighted at a conference in Dublin today.

Some 216 women trafficked in to Ireland for prostitution over the last seven years have been tracked down, it emerged today.

New legislation banning discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals is lawful with just one exception, a High Court judge has ruled.

Four daily newspapers are joining forces in a bid to tackle the problem of suicide in Northern Ireland.

Ireland’s first dedicated unit for pulmonary hypertension has opened at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. Around 200 people are currently being treated for the condition, which affects the heart and lungs.

A new report from the National Cancer Registry shows the number of new diagnoses of the disease continues to increase. The report says most of the increase is due to Ireland’s aging population.