Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn has said that teachers are increasingly becoming the victims of cyber-bullying by pupils.
The Church of Ireland's General Synod is to reopen a debate on homosexuality that was discontinued yesterday because of doubts about whether bishops' proposals might change Church doctrine.
Vatican police have arrested a man over the leaking of secret papers and possessing confidential documents.
The death has taken place of Sheila Conroy, the first woman to be elected to The National Executive Council of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
President Michael D Higgins became the 28th Freeman of Galway at a ceremony held in the city earlier this evening.
A motion proposed by the majority of the Church of Ireland bishops rejecting gay marriage has been withdrawn from the church's General Synod.
Cardinal Seán Brady has publicly apologised to Brendan Boland, a survivor of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.
Over 1,000 people today attended a conference in Dublin aimed at planning a way forward for the Catholic Church here.
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has called for an independent international commission of inquiry into the crimes of Fr Brendan Smyth, the late paedophile priest.
More than 20,000 people are estimated to have taken part in the 2012 Belfast City Marathon, which got underway at 9am.
It has emerged that the Diocese of Kilmore allowed paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth to return to minister to children in 1984.
Helen McGonigle, a US lawyer who was abused by Fr Brendan Smyth in the 1960s, has called on Cardinal Seán Brady to resign.
Cardinal Seán Brady has said he does not intend to resign following new allegations about a 1975 church inquiry into the activities of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged Western nations to further ease sanctions against Burma, in a major show of support for changes sweeping through the country.
The International Labour Organization has warned that unemployment worldwide has reached alarming levels and that few new jobs are being created.
A Catholic priest in Co Tyrone has apologised unreservedly after indecent images were inadvertently projected onto a screen during a meeting of parents at a primary school last month.