The Vatican’s unhelpful approach to clerical abuse inquiries in Ireland has been branded a disgrace by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

ARCHBISHOP Dermot Clifford said he’d have been “very happy” if Bishop John Magee was standing in front of the press responding to questions on the Cloyne report instead of him.

Structures have been put in place to ensure the devastating revelations of the Cloyne Report never happen again, the cleric overseeing the diocese pledged tonight.

THE report into clerical sex abuse in the Catholic archdiocese of Cloyne is expected to heavily criticise Bishop John Magee, in line with a previous inquiry by the Church’s own watchdog.

THE father of a girl with Down Syndrome is hopeful that her level of support in school will be restored following a meeting with Education Minister Mary Coughlan.

A third inquiry into clerical child sex abuse by Catholic priests will run until next summer, it was revealed tonight.

ARCHBISHOP Dermot Clifford, the new head of the Diocese of Cloyne, has met with several alleged victims of clerical sex abuse in the diocese and has extended invitations to others to meet with him shortly.

The senior cleric asked by the Pope to run the Diocese of Cloyne has said that he wants to restore trust and do everything he can to help the victims of clerical sex abuse in the Co Cork diocese.

The Pope has appointed the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Dermot Clifford, as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Cloyne in Cork.

NICKEY BRENNAN yesterday paid tribute to the GAA’s first president Maurice Davin for his role in ‘bestowing the gift of the GAA on the Irish nation’.

Two teenage girls who were described as “inseparable” in life have been buried side by side in a small Co Limerick graveyard.

Archbishop of Cashel Dermot Clifford has called for the Premier County to offer Fermanagh a tournament game as a goodwill gesture, in light of the Tipp football team failing to fulfil their All-Ireland qualifier against the Ernesiders during the summer.