Shame was the base and the root of the Church’s power. But not their shame... but of their victims, writes Fergus Finlay

The tragic life of a baby girl born after her dying unmarried mother was coldly turned away from two Kerry hospitals in the advanced labour near 70 years ago has been uncovered in an RTÉ documentary.

CRIMINAL elements in Clare were warned that gardaí will “meet them head-on” and not allow them to take over an Ennis housing estate that was the scene of a grenade attack last weekend.