The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) – The Rev. Ian Paisley, once the loud voice of Protestant opposition to compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland, has been taken to a hospital, his wife said.

A controversy erupted in the Republic of Ireland this summer when Patrick Costello, a member of Parliament for the Green Party, proposed that July 12 should be made a public holiday across Ireland.

The head of the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland, the Presbyterian Church, said Wednesday he will quit over "serious and significant failings" in child safeguarding over a 13-year ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's Protestant paramilitary groups must step up efforts to put themselves out of business or be left behind as the province enters a new era of peace and stability, ...

With the UK making moves to legalize the practice, Protestant and Catholic leaders reiterate a pro-life defense for the vulnerable. When the government put its abortion ban up for a referendum vote ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Irish Catholic militants attacked riot police Thursday in a polarized corner of Belfast as the most divisive day on Northern Ireland's calendar reached a typically ugly end ...

BELFAST (Reuters) - David Ervine, a former paramilitary who gave up violence to become one of Northern Ireland's leading Protestant politicians, died in hospital on Monday after a heart attack, a ...

Northern Ireland has too many Catholics and twice as many Protestants, but very few Christians. — Anonymous Protestant and Roman Catholic Christmas shoppers scurried warily past one another in drab, ...

A member of the Official Protestant Coalition, which is based in Belfast, went to the Calvary at Omeath in Co Louth to "celebrate" the death of Pope Francis on the day he died, Monday, April 21.