Philomena Lee, whose devotion to finding her adopted son inspired a recent film, has called for a more open adoption system here to allow people access their “genetic entitlement”.

At the function to honour the February Rebel Óg monthly award winners, the senior camogie team from Sacred Heart Secondary School in Clonakilty, one of the judges, Miriam Murphy, told the members of the team present not to read this article today.

A planned new university hub in Dingle in Co Kerry, will be a model for coastal development, project promoters predicted yesterday.

Irish children adopted by rich American families in the 50s and 60s have spoken of their harrowing Stateside childhoods in a new BBC documentary.

It took 31 years before the Sacred Heart nuns admitted to Mary that her baby boy had died of septicaemia, writes Claire O’Sullivan

Ireland’s missionary tradition goes back 1,500 years but based on current trends, it may not last 15 more.

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A long-serving bishop has sparked a storm of controversy over his fitness for the job after revealing he used to think paedophilia was friendship gone too far.

Kilkenny showed the greater hunger to land the 31st Tony Forristal U14 hurling title when they defeated host county Waterford 1-12 to 1-5 in yesterday’s final at sun drenched Walsh Park.

Katie Holmes has enrolled her six-year-old daughter into the same Catholic school Lady Gaga once attended.

Irish athletics chiefs and competitors last night played down the poor performances at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

A FIANNA FÁIL senator, who used Oireachtas privilege to disclose how the Sacred Heart Missionaries were not properly supervising a suspected Cork paedophile, has been complained to the Oireachtas Committee on Procedure and Privileges.

Bray Wanderers entertain First Division side Limerick in tonight’s FAI Ford Cup fourth round clash at the Carlisle Grounds (kick-off 7.45pm).

A COUNSELLING centre in Cork has confirmed that a priest, against whom seven allegations of sexual abuse have been lodged, worked as a volunteer with them in the early 1990s.

A CORK-BASED priest was training under-age county teams and was a selector of the minor county football team, even though sex abuse allegations had been made against him years earlier.

GOALS from Dean Bennett, Johnny Breen, Mark Quigley and Daniel Kearns saw Dundalk come from behind to record a comfortable 4-1 win over 10-man Galway United in the FAI Ford Cup third round.

VETERAN Bray Wanderers boss Pat Devlin admits his team are travelling into the unknown when they clash with Munster Senior League side Youghal United in tomorrow’s FAI Ford Cup third-round tie at Ardrath Park (3pm).

GALWAY UNITED’S visit to Dundalk will be only all-Premier League tie in the Ford FAI Cup third round after the draw was made last night.

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A US Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading no contest to stealing more than $1 million (€670,000) in church money and spending it on male escorts and a lavish lifestyle.

AVONDALE UNITED face the daunting task of trying to derail Crumlin United’s bid for three-in-a-row FAI Umbro Intermediate Cup titles in tomorrow’s semi-final at Pearse Park, Crumlin (1pm).

FAI President Paddy McCaul and 1992 cup-winning captain Paul Whelan this evening made the draw for the 2011 FAI Ford Senior Cup first and second rounds at FAI headquarters in Abbotstown.

A ROMAN Catholic priest in Connecticut was charged yesterday with stealing $1.3 million (about €1m) in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing and luxury hotels and restaurants.

A Catholic priest was today charged with stealing $1.3m (€1.55) from the church to spend on male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotels and restaurants.

Peter Brady from the Holy Trinity club in Belfast has claimed the first title of the 2007 National Intermediate Championships after receiving a walkover against Declan Geraghty of the Docklands club.

Ireland beat Wales 7-5 at the Clan Naofa Boxing club in Dundalk last Friday night in a keenly contested Boy 4 international.

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

THE latest batch of nursing home inspections reveal a litany of substandard conditions and care at a number of facilities.

THE Office of Public Works seems to have embarked on a crusade of political correctness which, to date, has put the Sacred Heart across the gardaí in at least one station.

An application to withdraw auctioneer John Finnegan from the Flood Tribunal has been rejected by Justice Flood.