The last of five bishops named in an expose of the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child sex abuse will not resign, his spokesman said tonight.

PRESSURE is mounting on three serving bishops named in the Murphy report to step down from office after Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin James Moriarty announced he had offered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI.

THE Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin James Moriarty is one of 17 senior bishops who served in the Archdiocese of Dublin during the period investigated by the Murphy Commission.

A SENIOR theologian has urged all five still-practising bishops who failed to prevent the sexual abuse of children in the Dublin Archdiocese to resign for the sake of the Church.

THE Pope has said he was deeply disturbed and distressed by the findings of a sickening child sex abuse inquiry and plans to write a letter to the Catholics of Ireland.

GARDAÍ and clergy who helped protect paedophile priests in the diocese of Dublin are to be targeted in a top-level criminal investigation.

Children's Minister Barry Andrews has said the Government will consider establishing further inquiries into clerical sex abuse in other dioceses, if it becomes clear that there are shortcomings in child protection.

An Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin says he sees no need for further inquiries into child abuse in the Irish Catholic church, and resources should be spent elsewhere.

The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland was preparing tonight for a potentially bitter courtroom row involving two of its most senior clerics.

Cardinal Sean Brady today led a delegation of prominent clergymen to Israel.

THEY came in their hundreds to mourn a woman who was universally loved and liked for her caring nature.

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

THOUSANDS of people gathered in Dublin’s Phoenix Park last night for a multi-faith Sunset Remembrance service to mark the Pope’s funeral in Rome.

Several thousand people gathered at the papal cross in Dublin's Phoenix Park this evening for a Sunset Service of Remembrance for Pope John Paul II.

THE Dublin City and County Book of Honour of the Great War 1914-1918 was part of the homily at 11am Mass in the Pro Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday, November 14.

LEADING members of the political and legal professions came together in Dublin yesterday for the funeral mass of one the country’s best-known barristers, Eamon Leahy.

OLIVER MURPHY was supposed to accompany his father, Martin, on last Sunday's ill-fated trip aboard the Pisces fishing boat that sank off the Wexford coast, but the vessel could only take nine passengers so he stayed ashore.

The Vatican has accepted the resignation tendered by Dr Brendan Comiskey, Bishop of Ferns, in a statement issued this morning.