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Gardai at the scene where a man was shot in north Dublin on Wednesday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Man arrested over Dublin gun attack

Victim critically injured after shooting outside Cabra gym

ASTI general secretary Pat King: said teachers have already taken significant pay cuts. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times ASTI accepts invitation to attend LRC pay talks

TUI and INTO have already agreed to re-enter negotiations on Croke Park II

Paula Lonergan from One Family with her daughter Aoife Lonergan-Bourke.Photograph: Aidan Crawley Family Day presents chance to show all families are perfect it there is love

Separation takes toll but pulling together for children a huge help

Justice For Magdalenes PRO Claire McGettrick with Mary Lou McDonald in Glasnevin Cemetary during a special ceremony to remember the deceased victims of the Magdalene Laundries earlier this year. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / The Irish Times Magdalene advocacy group ends political campaign

Justice for Magdalenes has ‘achieved all that it can’ through political lobbying

A homeless women in one of the rooms in the Camden Hall hostel in Dublin. Ireland’s biggest homeless hostel to close

New facilities to be provided for 90 homeless people

Part of the Down Survey of hand-drawn maps, showing the the barony of Duleek, Co Meath. Photograph courtesy of the National Archives of Ireland. Importance of proper archival catalogue of 19th century papers cannot be overstated

Records from early 19th century prove there is nothing new under the sun

Religion & Beliefs

Proposed abortion law is gravely immoral and strikes at the heart of our faith

Rite & Reason: No majority and no State can ever modify or destroy the right to life

The High Court ruled last week that an 86-year-old woman suffering from psychotic depression is to be given electric shock treatment despite the resistance of her family and following a High Court decision last Friday . Changes to mental health law expected

Pre-existing views of patients on treatments likely to be taken into account

Most Rev Dr Richard Clarke stressed the need to speak “compassionately, intelligently and spiritually” on what he called end-of-life issues Church must show initiative on ‘end-of-life’ issues, says Archbishop

Clarke calls for compassionate, intelligent and spiritual response to abortion call

Pope says no room for ‘social climbers’ among clergy

Francis urges priests to live simple lives among the poor

A file image of Fr Denis Nulty who has been appointed at the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Photograph: PA Bishop-elect admits these are ‘difficult days’ for priests

Fr Denis Nulty will become country’s youngest Catholic bishop

Church of Ireland Archbishop Michael Jackson with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. Archdeacon Leslie Stevenson’s ‘own decision’ to decline post

Circumstances from 1998 led him to resigning office

Bishops’ statement on proposed abortion legislation

Preliminary response by the Catholic Bishops of Ireland to Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013

A file image of Catholic Primate of All Ireland Sean Brady who today signalled a possible legal challenge to the Bill unless it is changed. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Cardinal says politicians have an ‘obligation’ to oppose abortion

Senior cleric says proposed law has ‘potentially menacing implications’ for the expression of religious freedoms

Primary schools not the only ones affected by school patronage issue

Rite & Reason: Most second-level schools are controlled by religious orders

Archdeacon Leslie Stevenson: was due to be consecrated Church of Ireland bishop of Meath and Kildare on Wednesday. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill Archdeacon declines appointment as bishop of Meath and Kildare

Archdeacon Leslie Stevenson’s ‘positive concern’ for Church of Ireland prompts him to decline appointment

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Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald holds the “Children First” document at its publication in July 2011 in Dublin Castle. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh Needs of children trumped by politics and economics
Gardai at the scene where a man was shot in north Dublin on Wednesday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Man arrested over Dublin gun attack
ASTI general secretary Pat King: said teachers have already taken significant pay cuts. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times ASTI accepts invitation to attend LRC pay talks
Part of the Down Survey of hand-drawn maps, showing the the barony of Duleek, Co Meath. Photograph courtesy of the National Archives of Ireland. Importance of proper archival catalogue of 19th century papers cannot be overstated
Anthony Crowley at breakfast in the Capuchin Day Centre, Bow Street, Dublin. “I know everyone here. I mightn’t know all their names but we know each other. They’ve been through the wars and they’ve lost their illusions, but they’re good people.” Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill ‘In Ireland you are two steps away from having nowhere to live, with just the clothes you stand in’
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