Middle-ranking gardaí said tonight they would not be breaking the law if they refused to co-operate with the proposed Garda Reserve.

THE Archbishop of Dublin is seeking full-time lay workers who would be paid for their duties to help tackle the problems arising from a shortage of priests.

THE Archbishop of Dublin yesterday made an eleventh-hour appeal to the Government to rescind a decision and vote against EU plans to fund embryonic stem cell research.

The ArchBishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland, Dr Dean Brady, has expressed his personal distress, grief and shame at the possible involvement of a priest, either directly or indirectly, in the Claudy bombing.