This weekend’s Cave concerts are performed 88 steps down in a chamber beneath the earth, says Alan O’Riordan

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning as he continues a busy trip to the US to continue the St Patrick’s weekend celebrations.

Peruvian authorities are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year.

Members of the Irish Catholic hierarchy have travelled to Birmingham, for the religious highlight of the Pope's state visit to Britain.

POPE Benedict’s messages during his historic visit will have a long significance for societies in Britain and Ireland, Cardinal Seán Brady has said.

POPE BENEDICT XVI met yesterday with a group of clerical sex abuse victims and promised them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek justice for paedophile priests and implement “effective measures” to protect young people from abuse.

Pope Benedict XVI’s eagerly-awaited letter to Roman Catholics in China will be released today, in the pontiff’s latest effort to reach out to Beijing and bring all of China’s faithful into the Vatican fold.

THE only car Pope John Paul II was believed to have owned is up for auction, and the seller expects it to attract bids of up to €3.7 million.

MOST Americans - Catholics and non-Catholics alike - would like to see the next pope willing to institute far-reaching changes: allowing priests to marry and women to join the priesthood.

New mother Ouarda Touirat, made infertile by chemotherapy due to cancer, gave birth to a baby girl thanks to a medical first ovarian tissue transplant.