Top stories of the week

A prominent cleric in the Free Presbyterian Church has described the Pride movement as “mainly a display of intolerance and vulgarity”.

The Ireland women’s hockey team’s improbable march towards World Cup glory has been fuelled in large part by the heroics of the squad’s six players from Ulster.

A priest at the funeral of a man killed on the M1 has urged those troubled and in grief to seek counselling.

The family of one of two civilians slain in a gun attack in the far west of the Province has appealed for answers on the 30th anniversary of the double killing.

Last week I wrote about how Northern Ireland would be better served by one major airport at Aldergrove, rather than three different ones (see link below).

Amid growing intra-DUP debate about whether unionism needs to prepare for the possibility of a united Ireland, the party last night said that Arlene Foster saw Peter Robinson’s latest controversial comments before they were published.

Lord Mayor of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon has slammed the Secretary of State for NI for an ‘stock’ response to her bid to scrap children’s funeral fees.

I was among the speakers last night at a public debate on ‘Civil Rights — Missed Opportunity’, as part of the West Belfast Festival / Féile an Phobail.