Oulart-the-Ballagh and Wexford defender Eoin Moore is unfazed by criticism of the leggings he wore in last Sunday’s AIB Leinster senior club hurling final against Mount Leinster Rangers.

Oulart-the-Ballagh 3-12 Ferns St Aidan’s 1-16

Oulart the Ballagh, Castletown-Geoghegan, Mount Leinster Rangers and Glenealy are celebrating Senior Hurling Championship wins in Wexford, Westmeath, Carlow and Wicklow respectively following finals this afternoon.

Oulart-the-Ballagh 0-17 Shelmaliers 0-10

A Co Wexford farmer has won damages in a High Court action against two auctioneers who overvalued land he wished to sell just before the property crash.

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Ian Elliott, the Catholic church’s own watchdog on child protection measures in Ireland, has detailed the policies now in place to prevent child abuse in several dioceses.

Carlow, UCD, Wexford and NUI Galway took wins in the opening round of the Bord na Mona Walsh Cup.

Rathnure produced an incredible comeback to defeat St. Anne’s (Rathangan) in a thrilling SHC quarter-final at Wexford Park on Saturday.

Former Wexford hurling kingpins Buffers Alley face a fight against relegation following their 0-16 to 0-11 defeat by Rathnure in the county senior hurling championship at Enniscorthy.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has today published legislation which will insist on Garda vetting for anyone working with children or vulnerable adults.

Nothing is more important than protecting our children.

PRESSURE is mounting for official Government inquiries into the response to child sex abuse in all Catholic dioceses after Church-sponsored audits showed serious failings by numerous bishops.

AN international clerical abuse survivors group is calling on Irish bishops to release secret files as it pursues the Vatican for crimes against humanity at the Hague.

WE’RE angry in Ireland right now about so many things. At this precise moment, it is the Catholic Church which is getting the full force of our rage.

ABRAHAM Lincoln was plagued with bad generals.

No 16, the Ferns in Foxwood has a school just around the corner, reports Tommy Barker.

ACTOR and comedian Niall Tóibín is to receive an honorary doctorate of arts in his native Cork next week.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin should name the “strong forces” in the Catholic Church who want the truth about child sexual abuse to remain hidden. He should say if they are Irish or international – or both.

CARI is calling on the Government to immediately implement the recommendations of the Ferns report on children's services.

FIVE years after it was recommended by the Ferns Inquiry, the Office for the Minister of Children still hasn’t launched a publicity campaign informing children that they aren’t responsible for sexual abuse.

I WAS flabbergasted by the appeal to its flock from the diocese of Ferns to help it pay for the serious abuse that some of its religious committed against young children.

CLERICAL abuse victims pointed the Bishop of Ferns, Denis Brennan, towards the Vatican when they heard about his appeal to parishioners to fund outstanding diocesan compensation and legal fees.

The Bishop of Ferns is turning to the parishes in his diocese to help meet the cost of clerical abuse claims.

ALL anybody has wanted to hear from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the past week has been sincerity and humility.

The Garda Commissioner says he is deeply sorry that people who sought assistance after they were sexually abused by priests in the Dublin Archdiocese did not receive the level of response or protection they were entitled to expect.

The Dublin Diocese report into allegations of clerical child abuse underlines the urgent need to put children’s rights into the Constitution, according to Amnesty International Ireland.

MIKE FRANK RUSSELL has opted out of Kerry’s Championship plans for the rest of the season, all but bringing to an end an inter-county career which produced five All-Ireland senior medals with the Kingdom.

OVER the next week or so, we will see another couple of reports that will confirm, once again, how children really don’t matter in Ireland.

CHILD abuse claims have cost the Diocese of Ferns more than €8 million, the bishop of the diocese, Dr Denis Brennan, has confirmed.

THE clerical sexual abuse scandal in the diocese of Cloyne — and its mishandling by Bishop John Magee — now has implications for all dioceses in Ireland, health officials and government authorities, North and South.

BECAUSE I am not a Catholic, I was reluctant to wade into the Bishop Magee controversy. The Ferns diocese in Co Wexford went through a decade of turmoil, which Cloyne is now experiencing. We discovered more than 100 individual allegations of clerical sexual abuse between 1962 and 2002. These involved 21 priests.

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ANOTHER senior Catholic Church figure has asked Bishop John Magee to consider his position in light of the latest report into his failure to properly deal with sex abuse allegations.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has threatened to implement his own child protection system in a pointed statement criticising the structures adopted to avoid abuse scandals.

A CHARITY which provides support to people who have experienced sexual abuse, is reporting a surge in calls over the mishandling of the Cloyne abuse report.

THE Minister for Children Barry Andrews has, after five months of incomprehensible and damaging silence, found it appropriate to question the position of the Bishop of Cloyne, the Most Rev John Magee, over how allegations of child abuse were handled in his diocese.

WHATEVER reasoning was used by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Barry Andrews, when he decided not to immediately publish a Department of Health commissioned report into how allegations of child sexual abuse were handled by the Diocese of Cloyne, it stinks to high heaven.

THE Bishop of Ferns has compared the suffering of child abuse victims in the diocese to the crucifixion of Christ.

There are calls for an audit to be published on the way in which each diocese in the country handles allegations of child abuse.

A “FAST track” probe into child sex abuse by priests in the Dublin archdiocese has been extended by another year, it emerged yesterday.

The Diocese of Ferns is reportedly facing a cash crisis as a result of sexual abuse compensation claims.

JUST a couple of weeks after a sell-out event at the same venue, Rylane Boxing Club will stage another boxing extravaganza at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom on Friday, February 23.