Update: 5.20am: The Funeral will take place on Thursday of the former Bishop of Derry, Edward Daly.

A young Irish nun killed in the earthquake in Ecuador was an inspirational example of womanhood, mourners at her funeral service have been told.

The daughter of a couple tragically killed in their Co Donegal home has pleaded with people with mental health problems to get professional help.

The daughter of a couple tragically killed in their Co Donegal home has pleaded with people with mental health problems to get professional help.

The funeral has taken place of Donegal couple Jimmy and Kathleen Cuddihy who were found dead at their home in Cardonagh last week.

Three bishops made significant errors of judgment when allegations of child sexual abuse were made against priests, a Catholic Church watchdog has found.

SIX separate reports on child protection measures in Catholic dioceses in Ireland will be published today.

The Pope has accepted the resignation of Bishop of Derry Seamus Hegarty, who has been forced to step down due to ill health.

Bishop Edward Daly has said he was shocked by the news his successor the Bishop of Derry Dr Seamus Hegarty is to step down for health reasons at the age of 71.

The Bishop of Derry, Dr Seamus Hegarty, is to step down for health reasons at the age of 71.

THE ASSOCIATION of Catholic Priests (ACP) has said the Vatican “won’t take too kindly” to calls from the former Bishop of Derry to end clerical celibacy.

THE murder of honeymooner Michaela Harte was an “evil act”, mourners at her funeral were told.

FORMER Bishop of Derry Edward Daly has hit out at the recent report which named Fr James Chesney a prime IRA suspect in the Claudy bombing in 1972.

A 32-year-old man has been charged with breaking in to the home of the Bishop of Derry, Dr Seamus Hegarty.

A BISHOP’S prayers were answered yesterday when direct flights were re-introduced between Cork and Belfast.

A FLAT cap and a bingo book — the most fitting symbols for a quiet, country man who loved the outdoors and a game of bingo in the parish hall.

JUST one small signpost marks Fahan out among the string of small communities scattered along the Lough Swilly shoreline and its parish church lies hidden among a maze of tight roads squeezed between heavy hedgerows.

THE British Government has not grasped the thorny issue of the North’s violent past, one of the main drivers behind the peace process has said.

Protestant church leaders will today make a symbolic visit into the nationalist Bogside to meet with the families of the Bloody Sunday victims.

THE Catholic Church has silenced a senior cleric who claimed priests did not have to answer to the law on the reporting of child abuse.

The Catholic Church faced further allegations of mishandling child sex abuse in Ireland today after claims that a girl abused by a priest was sworn to secrecy in an out-of-court settlement as recently as 2000.

Further claims have been made in the child sex abuse scandal currently rocking the Catholic Church.

Catholic bishops have called on the Government to honour their commitment to helping Irish prisoners abroad.

Irish emigrants are more at risk of going to prison in Britain due to the advent of tough sentencing policies, it was claimed today.

The Government has asked all Bishops to clarify their procedures regarding the removal of priests accused of abuse.

CHILD sex abuse allegations have been made against 26 priests who worked in Derry, it was revealed last night.

Eleven headstones have been vandalised in a graveyard in Donegal.

A letter of apology from the Bishop of Derry Seamus Hegarty to parishioners in the diocese has been read out at all masses today.

The Bishop of Derry has expressed regret at the “disquiet” caused after parish money was paid into a fund for victims of clerical sex abuse without consultation.

A PRIEST at the centre of sex abuse allegations in the North yesterday apologised to his parishioners.

A priest at the centre of sex abuse allegations in the North today apologised to his parishioners.

The Bishop of Derry has confirmed that he allowed a priest to continue working in his diocese despite the fact that the man made an out-of-court settlement to an alleged sex abuse victim.

LABOUR PARTY leader Pat Rabbitte yesterday blamed successive governments for neglecting the thousands of Irish emigrants in Britain who live in squalor and poverty.

A 48-year-old man has told the Saville Inquiry in Derry that he saw British soldiers riddle a car with bullets just as a young couple were about to get into it on Bloody Sunday almost 32 years ago.

A former paratrooper who claimed he was prepared to shoot Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness before Bloody Sunday, today admitted recurrent nightmares may have become more real to him than actual events.

A former paratrooper who was threatened with contempt of court proceedings for refusing to appear before the Bloody Sunday inquiry is to give evidence from behind a screen today.

A former soldier who refused to give evidence about Bloody Sunday is to be reported to the British High Court for contempt of the inquiry, it emerged today.

LAST week’s Sunday Tribune featured a not-very-revealing article about the contenders to succeed Desmond Connell as Archbishop of Dublin, and installed the Bishop of Derry, Dr Séamus Hegarty, as the favourite.

A senior British army officer may have been mistaken when he said that former SDLP leader John Hume informed him about terrorist activity in the Bogside, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry was told today.

The Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry and Raphoe has condemned the murder of 51-year-old David Caldwell by dissident republicans last week.

The former Bishop of Derry was fired at by a soldier as he ran to the aid of a fatally wounded teenager on Bloody Sunday, the Saville Inquiry has heard.

The Church of Ireland Primate, Dr Robin Eames, has appealed to everyone to give the implementation plan on policing in the North a fair chance.

A 40-year-old man was shot by a soldier in the living room of a flat on Bloody Sunday as he watched events with his wife, the Saville Inquiry heard today.