A number of priests are to be moved to new parishes in the diocese of Cloyne as others take time out to study.

A health lab has warned priests of the dangers of ‘overcooking’ holy ashes after several mass-goers were scorched during Ash Wednesday ceremonies.

A NUMBER of priests across the country have expressed their disappointment at how the Vatican has handled the fallout from the Murphy Report and the ongoing revelations of a global clerical abuse cover-up.

UNDER leaden skies, Stuart Mangan, the 26-year-old rugby player from Fermoy, Co Cork, who died last week, made his final journey home yesterday to be laid to rest at Kilcrumper cemetery, one of the oldest Christian burial places in Ireland.