• Religious control of schools is neither tolerant nor inclusive

  "I am still baffled at the inertia shown with regard to removing the education of so many of our children from the control of the Catholic church." Photograph: Scott Smith/Getty ...

• Constructing the life as lived by our ancient forebears

  Have you ever tried digging a hole with a stick? Or chopping down a tree with a stone axe? How about living on porridge for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a month? Reading about the way people lived in Stone Age and Mesolithic (10000-5000 BC) times gives only a very limited understanding of how things were in the distant past. Actually recreating everyday life introduces a sense of empathy and ...

• Irishman John downey remanded on Hyde Park bomb charge

  Dead horses covered up and wrecked cars at the scene of carnage in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, after an IRA bomb exploded as the Household Cavalry was passing. John Anthony Downey, 61, has been charged with the murders of four soldiers in the ...

• Analysis Aftermath of Apple disclosure difficult for Irish presidency

  It was an uncomfortable day for the Irish presidency of the European Council. Ireland's corporate tax rate has long been a source of friction in its otherwise harmonious relationship with Europe. When Ireland first assumed the rotating presidency in January, the tax question had threatened to spill on to the European political agenda. Michael Noonan's first finance ministers' ...

• David Miliband warns that British weakness in Europe could hold back Ireland

  "On a whole range of issues where Britain and Ireland have common interests and common cause, we get left behind. This is the more serious ...

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