While we acknowledge that points of difference obviously remain, the goal of restoring devolution remains within reach – Ireland’s church leaders.

Fr Magill, PP, St John’s Parish, Falls Road, Belfast, prayed that “Lyra’s murder may be the catalyst needed for parties to start talking, to reform that which was corrosive in previous Assemblies and to begin anew.”

Precious Life slams Amnesty’s call for UK government to legislate directly to change current Northern Ireland abortion law.

Comments by Minister Harris promising abortion services to Northern Ireland women represent an attack on the unborn and on the democratic process.