Clare priest Fr Pat Larkin had to compete with Rod Stewart bellowing out ‘Baby Jane’ while hearing confession yesterday at the Shannon Skycourt shopping centre.

THE ordination of two seminarians this summer in the Diocese of Killaloe “will provide an extraordinary morale boost to priests in the diocese”, its director of vocations said yesterday.

AN east Clare priest has launched a “pirate” radio service to bring the Gospel to his housebound parishioners every Sunday morning.