MORE than 800 victims of abuse are on a waiting list for the National Counselling Service (NCS), with a further 208 returning clients also waiting for vital support services.

The Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin is to write to the bishops named in the Dublin Diocesan report into child abuse to tell them he is not happy with some of their responses to the inquiry.

Poles, Lithuanians, Nigerians and Romanians are just some of the nationalities expected to take part in the annual Festival of Peoples in Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral tomorrow.