ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin said he could not agree with some Catholics who wanted the Church to proclaim closure on past clerical child abuse and move on.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin warned today that there are no short-cuts to tackling the deepening scandals of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church.

WE are really in the midst of a revolution of sorts. All of the old certainties are being washed away. People are now questioning all the previously authoritative figures in society.

IN the past week we had posthumous pronouncements from both Judge Seán O’Leary and the late US President Gerald Ford.

YOUR columnist Patrick Kenny (Irish Examiner, September 7) refers on at least two occasions to ‘the right to be wrong’.

MR JUSTICE Kevin O’Higgins concluded that Portmarnock golf club “is not a discriminating club under the terms of the Equal Status Act 2000, because it falls within an exception provided for in that act”.

THE Government described the recent meeting with Cardinal Desmond Connell and five other members of a delegation from the hierarchy as having been “a useful exchange of views”, and it has agreed to continue contacts with the hierarchy, which has been calling for a reference to God in the new EU constitution, as well as demanding an end to stem cell research.

John Wayne Bobbitt, who made headlines around the world after his then-wife Lorena Bobbitt was charged with cutting off his penis in 1993, has remarried on his 35th birthday.