The new Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Cork-born Bishop Kieran O’Reilly, will be installed early in 2015.

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Ian Elliott, the Catholic church’s own watchdog on child protection measures in Ireland, has detailed the policies now in place to prevent child abuse in several dioceses.

There have been three allegations of child abuse made against priests in the diocese of Kilalla since 1975, according to a report into child protection practices.

FR BERNÁRD Lynch moved to New York in 1975. It transformed his life.

PLANS to operate charity fundraising games at the Rock Bingo Centre in Togher have been dogged by controversy for a number of weeks.

A DISTRICT court judge has refused to grant a licence for a commercially run bingo hall in Cork which would have given 10% of its proceeds to charities.

Pope Benedict has announced that Cork native Fr. Kieran O'Reilly is to replace Dr Willie Walshe as the next Bishop of Killaloe.

A PRIEST married his own son in Galway yesterday.

RESIDENTS are ready to take legal action to save their estate’s green from developers.

YOUNG people were urged yesterday to consider missionary life and promote justice and peace amongst the “most abandoned people” of Africa.

THE Catholic Church in Cork will celebrate its first multi-lingual Mass this weekend to mark the feast of Pentecost.

An Irish priest was murdered in Kenya last night after a gang of ten armed men invaded his home in a Nairobi suburb.

THE visit of the Minister for Defence, Michael Smith, to the Irish troops serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia is a timely opportunity to reflect on the contribution the Irish army has made so far in Liberia.