CBC Cork 15 - PBC Cork 15: Two high-quality sides produced a very entertaining derby at Musgrave Park yesterday.

Presentation Brothers College, the favourites, had to battle all the way before overcoming brave, injury-hit Bandon Grammar School in a pulsating Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup final at Musgrave Park today.

The death has occurred in Cork of Bertie O’Hanlon, the last surviving member of the Irish team that won the Grand Slam and Triple Crown in the 1948 International Championship. 

“It is a little unusual for a rugby school to put its head above the parapet with soccer.”

After an epic three-hour battle, Presentation Brothers College in Cork came out on top in Munster’s ultimate schools robot competition.

PBC 60 St Clement’s 0: The one-sided nature of this Munster Senior Cup clash was of scant use to either the victors or the vanquished at Rosbrien yesterday. 

It is not often that Presentation Brothers College, Cork go five years without a title in the SEAT Munster Schools’ Senior Cup. 

Presentation Brothers College Cork may be favourites to advance from today’s Seat Munster Schools Junior Cup quarter final clash with Glenstal Abbey, but they are not taking anything for granted.

The number of priests formally accused of sexually abusing children in the country’s biggest Catholic diocese over the past 40 years has topped 100, according to the latest figures.

The announcement in London that a Presentation Brothers cleric is to receive an MBE from Queen Elizabeth is a timely reminder of the debt owed by generations of Irish citizens to the Catholic congregation founded in 1802 by Blessed Edmund Rice, who also founded the Christian Brothers.

THE fight between the Government and 18 religious orders over a €500 million point of principle has been laid bare for the first time.

Two Ghanaian men took their first vows yesterday in a multicultural religious ceremony in Kerry yesterday.

THE Department of Education has spent over €38 million buying school sites from organs of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

JUST €20.6 million of the €348.5m promised by 16 of the 18 religious congregations in the wake of the Ryan Report has been paid to date.

THE ownership of eight Presentation Brothers’ schools has been taken over by a board of lay trustees. They include seven Cork schools.

A number of religious orders whose members abused children in care institutions have agreed to engage with the Government about contributing more to victims.

The Catholic Church and Irish Government covered up decades of brutal sexual abuse and beatings by priests and nuns on thousands of children in state care, one of the most damning reports on clerical abuse revealed today.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese described her CV as now complete after being conferred with the Freedom of Cork yesterday.

ONE of the finalists in the 2003-2004 Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) All-Ireland Schools’ Quiz last night got off to a flying start in this year’s competition.

MS JUSTICE LAFFOY again criticises the majority of religious orders under investigation for their continued stone-walling of inquiries into allegations against members and institutions under their control.

AN Irish religious order has denied it is selling one of its schools in England to help pay off victims of clerical child abuse here.