A Co Clare Priest has put in a request for time away from his parish after photographs of him, allegedly from a gay website, were published in a tabloid newspaper.

A well-known Co Clare priest is promising to make a statement later following articles written about him in a tabloid newspaper this morning.

THE parents of four-year-old Karl Fox, who was killed in a freak accident at his school last week, are struggling to come to terms with the loss, the local parish priest, Fr Michael Hogan, said yesterday.