A NEWLY ordained priest is hoping his life experience as a husband, father and grandfather will give him a greater understanding of his parishioners.

VICTIMS of clerical sex abuse in the diocese of Cloyne have expressed absolute fury at the decision to draft in a UCD psychologist to prepare priests for the public outcry once the Murphy Commission report into abuse is published.

A CLINICAL psychologist is coming to Cork this weekend to prepare priests from the diocese of Cloyne for the expected public outcry following publication of the Dublin Archdiocese report into the handling of child abuse in the diocese.

THE resignations of three more Irish bishops will be accepted by the Pope in the coming weeks following the departure yesterday of the Bishop of Cloyne.

THE resignations of three more Irish bishops will be accepted by the Pope in the coming weeks following the departure yesterday of the Bishop of Cloyne.

The Bishop of Cloyne has confirmed publicly this evening that he is effectively stepping aside.

A County Galway priest is to be appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Achonry, it was announced today.

A DIOCESE that was at the centre of a clerical child sex abuse scandal was yesterday celebrating the appointment of its new bishop.

POPE Benedict XVI has appointed Fr Denis Brennan as the new Bishop of Ferns, a diocese which has been rocked by sex scandals.

HORROR, hurt, incomprehension. And that was just how the bishop felt.

A SEX abuse victim who is suing Bishop Brendan Comiskey and the State in relation to the handling of abuse in the diocese of Ferns will find out today if she can have access to files on the priest at the centre of the scandal.