Ireland’s newest and youngest Catholic bishop has used his appointment to weigh into the abortion controversy.

OLD LEIGHLIN won the Conlon Cup for the third time before 4,000 spectators at Dr Cullen Park yesterday.

A NUMBER of priests across the country have expressed their disappointment at how the Vatican has handled the fallout from the Murphy Report and the ongoing revelations of a global clerical abuse cover-up.

The Vatican is expected to announce the Pope's acceptance of the resignation of the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin tomorrow.

Victims of clerical abuse tonight accused Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of closing ranks with senior clergy over the cover-up of paedophile priests.

The authorities are paralysed to bring paedophile priests and the senior clerics who covered up decades of horrific abuse to justice, victims have claimed today.

Two more Bishops have resigned in the wake of the damning Murphy report.

There is increasing pressure on the three remaining Bishops named in the Murphy report to resign.

THE Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin James Moriarty is one of 17 senior bishops who served in the Archdiocese of Dublin during the period investigated by the Murphy Commission.

Nobody should take any satisfaction at this time of year from Dr James Moriarty’s decision to resign as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. It is a personal setback, but it had unfortunately become necessary. He had unwittingly become implicated in child abuse, even though he was accurate in saying that he did nothing wrong.

The Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin James Moriarty has offered his resignation to the Pope today.

There is speculation today that a second bishop criticised in the Murphy report is about to resign.

VICTIMS support group One in Four has accused the Vatican of making a “wholly inadequate” response to the Murphy report and failing to accept responsibility for the cover-up of sexual abuse worldwide.

Former Meath midfielder Liam Hayes' recent reign as Carlow senior football manager will be his last in charge of an inter-county team.

Dr Laurence Ryan, the former bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, has died at the age of 72.

THE Taoiseach and Justice minister were among the guests at a special ceremony installing the new bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.

The new Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin says that there is no place within the priesthood for anybody that harms children.