The jury in the case of a former Christian Brother who denied charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s reached verdicts of not guilty yesterday after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation.

Chief Justice Susan Denham has urged Garda chiefs to bring to an end unauthorised leaks to the media by individual officers of matters relating to pending criminal prosecutions.

The former secretary general of the Department of Finance, John Moran, has admitted to an omission in his impressive CV.

A 10-year-old boy was told by a priest to make himself less attractive so as not to be a target for sexual abuse, a royal commission has heard in Australia.

A 42-year old man who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother over a five-year period, starting when he was aged 8, has been awarded €370,000 by a High Court judge.

A 42-year-old man who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother over a five-year period starting when he was aged 8, has been awarded €370,000 by a High Court judge.

A former Christian Brother on trial for indecently assaulting four boys at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork in the 1980’s told investigating gardaí that he took an overdose in 2010, it emerged yesterday.

Survivors of abuse at Christian Brother schools have accused organisers of a Christian Brothers commemoration event this weekend of attempting to muzzle them by not allowing them to speak.

Screenwriter, playwright and director Gerry Stembridge admits to having doubts that he had what it takes to be a novelist, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

THE skies over Cork will be lit up by a spectacular laser show this week to honour the father of vocational education in Ireland.

ELSEWHERE in today’s paper (News Analysis, page 17) I have reviewed Michael Clemenger’s book Holy Terrors, dealing with life in the industrial school in Tralee in the late1950s and early 1960s. It evoked many memories for me, having grown up within a mile of the school.

A senior Christian Brother leader today backed growing demands for criminal prosecutions against those responsible for decades of child abuse in church-run schools.

A legal bid by a Christian Brother to dismiss an action taken against him by a former pupil for alleged physical and sexual abuse on the grounds of delay has been rejected by the High Court.

The closing stages have been reached in the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of a former Christian Brother for indecently assaulting a boy during a group holiday to Co Clare in ther 1980s.

A former Christian Brother has told the indecent assault trial of a member of the order that he had disagreement with the accused over his relationship with young people.

The trial of a retired Christian Brother accused of indecent assault on a young girl 40 years ago has continued with legal argument in the absence of the jury.

A Christian Brother has been acquitted, by direction of Judge Tony Hunt, of sexually assaulting boys 40 years ago in a Galway industrial school.

The trial of a former Christian Brother for allegedly sexually assaulting young boys some 40 years ago in Galway has continued legal discussion in the absence of the jury.

Two more men have given evidence of having been sexually abused by a Christian Brother in a Galway industrial school some 40 years ago.

A jury has been given copies of letters exchanged between a Christian Brother and the family of a boy who was lodged in a Galway residential school after his father lost their family home to a neighbour in a game of cards.

A MAN who threatened to blow himself up in the centre of Roscrea said he was sexually abused while training as a Christian Brother.

SIEGE man Jim Hourigan told the Irish Examiner by mobile phone last night how his life was left in ruins after he was repeatedly raped as a postulant in the Christian Brothers.

REPRESENTATIVES of victims of industrial schools have rejected claims made by the Christian Brothers that allegations made by former pupils in relation to physical and sexual abuse are tainted and motivated by money.

A Christian Brother teacher who broke a boy’s jaw remained in the industrial school system for 13 years, the Child Abuse Commission heard yesterday.

A SENIOR member of the Christian Brothers yesterday claimed the media’s portrayal of Artane Industrial School had been “seriously unbalanced”.

The Christian Brothers today clashed with an organisation representing victims of sex abuse after denying the practice had been so widespread as claimed.

SECONDARY school parents’ groups want the Government to give them more independence to air their views on issues affecting students after a split in their umbrella organisation.

A former Christian Brother was jailed for two years today after admitting abusing 10 schoolboys.

A 30-year-old Waterford man, who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother, is to begin a civil case against the religious order today.