An outspoken priest has hit out at intolerant and extreme right-wingers in the Church and questioned why priests like Fr Tony Flannery were being “persecuted with a zeal that is as pathological as the paranoia that feeds it”.

THE number of lives lost on Irish roads over the past 50 years is equivalent to the entire population of Tralee in Co Kerry.

THE Bishop of Kerry, Dr Bill Murphy, yesterday said Taoiseach Bertie Ahern may have been hasty in deciding not to have a national day of mourning to mark the death of John Paul II.

IT is proposed to make changes in the interior of the Augustinian Church in Galway.