Back-in-the-game sports retailers Elverys are continuing to hit the ground running, with a second Cork store off the busy ring road just acquired, hot on the heels of its just-opened city centre presence on Oliver Plunkett Street.

Sexual abuse was rampant at a children’s home in the North run by a Catholic order of brothers, a former senior police officer has said.

An order of Catholic Brothers has apologised for abusing boys at its residential care home in the North.

THE chairwoman of the Catholic Church’s internal inquiry into paedophile priests was making no comment yesterday on reports a member of her team once failed to turn over a crucial complaints file in another child sex abuse investigation.