In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph, Archbishop Eamon Martin laments, “The harshest criticisms and mockery nowadays tends to come in social media - often from trolls, or people who have never met me.”

“This was not only an attack on a church, but as a peace-hungry society, this was an attack on all of us.”

I would like to see DUP supporters and other people beginning to find some affinity with the Irish language and not see it as a threat.

David McNarry said that the Orange Order should promote a discussion on the ban and admitted that he himself had attended Mass at the funerals of friends.

Martina Purdy and former family lawyer Elaine Kelly embark on the next stage of their journey into religious life, as Adoration Sisters welcome new postulant.