The headlines are no surprise, even if the targets are becoming predictable.

Speaking at a Confirmation ceremony 60 years ago, then Bishop of Cork, the infamously conservative and hardline Connie Lucey, warned that all “was not well in Ireland”.

Cork sculptor Séamus Murphy is the subject of a new film, writes Colette Sheridan.

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