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

Two children’s homes run by the Catholic Church will be investigated first as part of a major inquiry into institutional abuse in the North, it has been revealed.

Influenza claimed the lives of six elderly people who died in a private nursing home, tests have revealed.

Health chiefs remain concerned about a small number of residents who are ill at a private nursing home where six people have died in a suspected viral outbreak.

THE nuns who made hundreds of millions of euro by selling property during the Celtic Tiger had made plans to use the money.

THE Government has refused to accept millions of euro worth of land that the Church wants to include as part of its overall contribution to the compensation scheme for abuse victims.