Clergy and gardaí have renewed appeals to the parents of a baby girl, whose body was found at a recycling plant last week and laid to rest yesterday, to come forward.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday backed a call from the Pope for the institutions of the UN to be renewed to enable it respond better to an adapting world.

A new landscape of opportunity for peace in Ireland has been created by the IRA’s decision to renounce violence, President Mary McAleese said today.