The way has been cleared for a permanent Islamic centre in Killarney.

Muslim leaders and imams from across Europe looked ahead today to a gathering in Vienna, Austria, that one official called a “critical moment” for the faith.

Diplomats, activists and political leaders were among hundreds who gathered today to bid farewell to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to honour his decades-long pursuit of the Second World War’s most heinous criminals.

Hundreds of Serbs have blocked a ground-breaking ceremony for the reconstruction of a mosque in the Bosnian Serb town of Trebinje.