BISHOP Magee retains the title Bishop of Cloyne even though the governance of the diocese passed to the apostolic administrator from March 2009.

WITH the recent untimely death of singer Amy Winehouse firmly in the media spotlight, why aren’t teenagers being educated on drug abuse?

WITHOUT any shadow of doubt there must be mourning in Heaven and jubilation in Hell whenever an innocent child is abused by a Catholic priest.

IN response to the decades of clerical child abuse to which the church authorities and law makers acquiesced, I declare that the time for revolutionary speeches has long since passed and subsequently action is necessitated.

IN a week that the ever popular Inland Waterways Association of Ireland’s 51st Shannon Boat Rally is underway, it is a timely to publicise two major industrial undertakings that could grossly affect the majestic Shannon river system.

UNITED Nations peacekeepers are currently deployed in 16 countries across four continents, yet none has been sent to Somalia, where 4 million lives are at risk from starvation.

COULD any of our political parties have assembled so many committed young people as the Norwegian Labour party did on Utoya?

THE Rules of the Road claims that pedestrians are “extremely difficult to see”, but makes no such claim for cars.

ENDA Kenny has shown himself to be red of tooth and claw in his tirade against the Church and its “dysfunctional elite”.

IN more innocent times in 1991, Bishop Comiskey of the diocese of Ferns, said this about the Irish Government: “It is economically and morally bankrupt.”