The shredding of “personal papers” belonging to former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has led to calls for more robust laws on the retention of documents.

The passage of the children’s referendum is warmly welcomed. It may have been much closer than early polls indicated, but it was still passed by a comfortable margin of 58% to 42%.

The State “kowtowed” to churches for decades when it came to the care of children and the Government’s proposed constitutional amendment is needed to put things right, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said.

POLITICIANS have demanded the Catholic Church remove a magazine from churches that carries an advertisement claiming the Lisbon Treaty will automatically allow special needs children and ill people to be locked up.