It could be months before the Government decides whether to pardon 5,000 soldiers branded deserters and blacklisted for fighting for Britain against Nazi Germany, it has emerged.

VICTIMS of clerical sex abuse in the diocese of Cloyne have expressed absolute fury at the decision to draft in a UCD psychologist to prepare priests for the public outcry once the Murphy Commission report into abuse is published.

A former senior garda officer sacked after being branded corrupt today compared the force to the military junta rulers brutally opposing democracy in Burma.

A LEADING expert on Tara Valley archaeology has suggested it may still be possible to avoid the demolition of part of the historical Lismullen site being excavated to make way for the M3 motorway.

Indonesian authorities were today preparing to execute three Christian militiaman found guilty of carrying out bloody attacks on Muslims during sectarian fighting in 2000.

JURORS and victims’ relatives fear they might be targets of a death row inmate who freed himself from handcuffs and walked out of a US county jail in civilian clothes.

THE cost of compensating victims of abuse in religious institutions would have been far higher than the present estimate of €650 million if the cases had been allowed to go to court, a TD said yesterday.