Photo above – Red squirrel, courtesy of Northcoast Nature
NI Assembly members to get ‘unjustifiable’ pay rise – Michelle O’Neill –
BBC News
[[] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51203404 ]
Derry clergy forgive drug addict thieves who vandalised church
Belfast Telegraph
Two drug and alcohol addicts who smashed their way into a Derry church through a 19th century stained glass window and caused £75,000 worth of damage have been jailed. The shocking burglary at the Church Of Ireland’s Christ Church on Northland Road also saw one of the men defecate in a boiler room and excrement … See also News Briefs this site.
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/derry-clergy-forgive-drug-addict-thieves-who-vandalised-church-38885371.html ]
Pastor David Purse: ‘Why I have forgiven IRA man who killed my father when I was 14’
Belfast Telegraph
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/pastor-david-purse-why-i-have-forgiven-ira-man-who-killed-my-father-when-i-was-14-38883841.html ]
Sinn Féin calls for Irish unity referendum by 2025
RTE
[[] https://www.rte.ie/news/election-2020/2020/0121/1109843-sinn-fein/ ]
Immigrant mothers in Cork celebrate graduation.
Echo Live
[[] https://www.echolive.ie/wow/Immigrant-mothers-in-Cork-celebrate-graduation-bc868378-3b8c-49f4-ba80-eaf2cfc2dd22-ds#.XigDNXa9JOc ]
Rise in pupils without proper homes
Irish Examiner
As many as one in four children in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in the country are homeless, with principals warning that the real figures could be even higher.
[[] https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/rise-in-pupils-without-proper-homes-976929.html ]
Civility as a civic and political virtue is in short supply
Irish Times
Bishop John McDowell of Clogher writes
[[] https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/civility-as-a-civic-and-political-virtue-is-in-short-supply-1.4145563 ]
David Baker on Anglican Primates meeting
Christian Today
[ https://www.christiantoday.com/article/the-mysterious-case-of-the-anglican-primates-gafcon-and-justin-welby/134065.htm ]
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