A priest has sparked controversy after he arranged for a woman to give a graphic account of her abortion at a children’s Mass and outline how she believed her special needs child was a punishment from God.

GRIEF-STRICKEN communities yesterday buried two men in their 40s, who were killed in a head-on crash in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, last Monday.

THE thoughts of two grief-stricken families were with each other yesterday as they buried three young car crash victims and prayed for another passenger injured in the same accident who remains in a serious condition in hospital.