An Archbishop has apologised to the Revenue Commissioners for what he describes as "unacceptable" comments made by a priest in his diocese.

A PRIEST who once served in the Diocese of Cloyne has written to the Pope’s representative in this country, the papal nuncio, seeking the resignation of the Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee and the diocese’s former head of children protection.

YESTERDAY, as Fr Michael Mernagh ended his “pilgrimage of atonement” at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral, where he was embraced by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, we got an indication of the great pressure put on the National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) chief executive Ian Elliott.

Special Olympics supremo Mary Davis is to head a new national citizenship task force to urge people to get involved in voluntary work in their communities.

Two unprecedented studies that document pervasive sex abuse by US Roman Catholic clergy found nearly 11,000 young people have claimed they were molested since 1950, and that bishops bear much of the responsibility for the crisis.