A general election candidate, who was told by his parish priest that he could no longer read at Mass due to his stance on abortion, will meet his bishop and parish priest tomorrow.

THE father of a teenage girl who was allegedly sexually abused for a number of years by a priest based in Co Cork has claimed the cleric is not being supervised as promised and still has access to young people.

THE death of a 19-year-old man from a suspected cocaine overdose and subsequent multiple seizures of narcotics in a rural part of north Cork has accelerated an anti-drug programme in the area.

I HAVE read with some astonishment and much disbelief the recent spate of letters to the Irish Examiner concerning the alleged movement of the Cloyne diocesan baptism and marriage records.