I was surprised to hear the journalist Bruce Arnold tell Marc Coleman on Newstalk a few days ago that I came ‘lately’ on the scene when he was writing his book about child abuse in Irish orphanages and industrial schools.

We welcome moves to include Westbank Orphanage, Greystones, in inquiries into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

An Israeli orchestra is to perform a work by Adolf Hitler's favourite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germany.

A plane crashed into the Hudson River in New York today, sending passengers fleeing for safety in the freezing water.

SURVIVORS of child abuse have criticised a legal challenge by a religious order to prevent the Laffoy Commission from naming and shaming their members.