A priest and his sister who were extremely close in life and died on the same day, have been laid to rest in Youghal, Co Cork, following joint Requiem Mass.

THE detective responsible for exposing the horrific sex abuse in the diocese of Raphoe in Donegal has said the lid is set to explode on the entire affair.

PRIESTS in the Diocese of Cloyne have yet officially to discuss reaction to the Cloyne Report, two months after it was published.

LAST Tuesday night I listened to Cardinal Brady’s Killarney lecture on ‘The Church in Contemporary Ireland’, including his passing reference to the scandals that have bedevilled it.