Victims of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth are to take legal action against the gardaí. The move follows revelations that officers in Dublin knew about his sex abuse in the early 1970s.

Cardinal Brady has been derided for his role in allowing Smyth to prey, but the role of the abbot at Kilnacrott is near perverse, writes Claire O’Sullivan

A HUGE village party has been organised in Adare to coincide with the Irish Open Golf Championship, which takes place there from May 15 to 18.