The Press Ombudsman has not upheld a complaint made by Mr Dan Duane that the Irish Examiner breached Principles 1 (Truth and Accuracy) and Principle 4 (Respect for Rights) of the Code of Practice of the Press Council of Ireland.

Yet again Enda Kenny stood up and read a speech someone else had written for him about abuse.

A row has erupted between TDs over the recital of a prayer at the start of each Dáil sitting, which Independent TD Clare Daly has described as "offensive".

Charlie Flanagan TD, chairman of the Fine Gael parliamentary party, said the closing of our embassy to the Holy See could be reviewed once we had an economic upturn.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny wished the Pope well in his retirement despite a stormy relationship with the Vatican.

That the Government is to proceed with legislation to protect so-called “whistleblowers” who seek to expose wrong-doing in either the public or private sectors, is to be welcomed.

GOD-hating, priest-baiting, loony leftie Eamon Gilmore secured a key plank of his evil secular masterplan to make us a nation of pagans by shutting down the Vatican embassy.

VACILLATION and the Vatican make for uncomfortable bed fellows.

IT appears a seismic shift is taking place in Irish attitudes to the Holy See.

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore’s decision to close the Irish embassy to the Vatican was met with overwhelming opposition from the public with over 93% criticising the move.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said stricter laws are needed to protect children, following the final chapter of a report into the Catholic Church’s mishandling of allegations of clerical child sex abuse.

A cleric asked to examine abuse allegations against a fellow priest suggested a teenage victim was to blame, a previously unpublished section of the Cloyne Report has revealed.

The Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Cloyne has expressed his profound sorrow on the publication of the final chapter of the Cloyne Report.

The final part of the Cloyne Report has been published, again detailing the failure of the Catholic Church to report alleged child abuse.

Serious failures in the handling of child sex abuse allegations against a priest in the Diocese of Cloyne are expected to be published tomorrow.

The Taoiseach has denied any further souring of relations between Ireland and the Vatican after the decision to close the Irish Embassy to the Holy See.

Full text of this evening's statement from the Government.

A representative of the Catholic Priests Association has said the current spat between the Taoiseach and the Vatican is putting people's faith at risk.

GROUPS supporting victims of child clerical sex abuse yesterday said the Vatican was indulging in “pure spin” in its response to the fallout from the Cloyne report.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he did not regret his unprecedented attack on the Vatican after it rejected his claims that it tried to frustrate an inquiry into clerical child abuse.

All-Ireland primate Cardinal Sean Brady has welcomed the Vatican's response to the Cloyne Report and claimed it conveyed "profound abhorrence" for the abuse.

It has emerged the Government has received an official response from the Vatican in relation to the Cloyne report.

It is expected the Vatican will give its formal response to the Cloyne report early next week.

THE house belonging to the parish of Mitchelstown, Co Cork, where former bishop of Cloyne Dr John Magee was spotted last week, was deserted yesterday, and his whereabouts are once again unknown.

THE revelation that the Dublin Archdiocese — the country’s largest with over one million registered Catholics — is close to financial collapse is likely to be mirrored in other parts of the Church in Ireland.

IRISH society must acknowledge that it needs to address a series of problems as concerning as the clerical abuse scandal before the safety of children in this country can be assured.

CATHOLIC priests have downplayed the possibility of parish hall meetings to discuss the fallout from the Cloyne Report into clerical child sex abuse, claiming it is simply a proposal.

PRIESTS in the Diocese of Cloyne have yet officially to discuss reaction to the Cloyne Report, two months after it was published.

Priests from all over Cork were due to meet today to air their views on the findings of the Cloyne Report.

I FEEL again compelled to take issue with the nature of political, press and interest group reaction to the Cloyne Report and the ongoing fallout in terms of the Vatican’s relations with Ireland.

EXPRESSING surprise and regret at some of the “excessive reactions” to the Cloyne Report the Vatican recalled its ambassador to Ireland to discuss the preparation of its response.

MASS-GOERS in the Taoiseach’s home constituency of Castlebar had plenty of praise for him following his scathing attack on the Vatican this week.

INTERNAL audits into child protection have been completed in six dioceses, it emerged last night, with the Diocese of Raphoe likely to publish its report “in the near future”.

NOW I have some idea of the thinking behind Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter’s tea party.

The Papal Nuncio Guiseppe Leanza said today that he is "distressed" at the findings of the Cloyne Report.

COMPULSORY reporting of child abuse, even by doctors and by priests hearing confession, will be required under new plans unveiled yesterday by Government.

Colm O'Gorman of Amnesty International has said the Cloyne Report reveals "the dismissive attitude" of the Vatican to investigations of clerical sexual abuse.