ABUSE victims have maintained the pressure on Cardinal Seán Brady to resign over his handling of paedophile priest, Fr Brendan Smyth, despite issuing another apology yesterday in which he acknowledged shame at his own past failings.

THE late Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Cahal Daly, will be laid to rest at noon tomorrow after his remains were yesterday received at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh.

The President, the Taoiseach and the leaders of the opposition are all attending a State commemoration in Dublin today to mark the 1916 Rising.