The Bishop of Killaloe Dr Willie Walsh has today admitted he was one of the three judges involved in the case of paedophile priest William Carney.

The Bishop of Killaloe, Dr Willie Walsh, has donated lands worth an estimated €10m for the development of facilities for the elderly in Ennis, Co Clare.

The Bishop of Killaloe Dr Willie Walsh has admitted that he referred a Clare priest later convicted of child sex abuse to a psychiatrist in 1995, but was told he posed no danger to children.

Irish roads have claimed yet another life - this time that of a woman in Nenagh, Co Tipperary.

A number of Catholic bishops have been confronted by an abuse victim outside today's extraordinary general meeting at St Patrick's College in Maynooth.