The victims of a Waterford-based paedophile who was yesterday jailed for 14 years and two months have urged anyone else who suffered abuse to come forward and tell their story.

Approximately 200 cancer patients have been warned they may have been given potentially contaminated chemotherapy drugs.

Our appetite for sporting controvassy might not yet rival our friends across the water. But when the opportunity arises, we tend to give it 100%.

FAI chief John Delaney has defended his singing of a song about hunger strikers in a Dublin pub — as it emerged lawyers acting on his behalf had initially been instructed to deny he was involved.

There have been renewed calls for an overhaul of the Vat system after complaints that lapdancing clubs are paying less than Irish dancing schools.

TIM ‘Boomer’ Carroll is a friend of mine. A Boston-Irish firefighter, he is. Don’t ask me what the ‘Boomer’ stands for. Something sporting, probably. Boomer loves Ireland. Starting with its literature.

No doubt many readers are watching GAA games from the traditional perspective this summer, but depending on your familiarity with stadium seating plans, some of you may be trying to peer past the increasingly large squadrons of backroom staff clogging up the sidelines of the nation.

WITH the New Year, we, as a nation, should have one resolution: to be positive.

Two complaints against RTÉ’s Liveline have been upheld by broadcasting watchdog the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) after it found a Catholic priest had been harassed following a magazine article linking the Taoiseach with King Herod.

The Nicola Furlong murder trial in Japan once again highlighted the spectre of drinks-spiking. But just how much of a danger is it posing in the pubs and clubs of Ireland, wonders John Hearne

THE head of St Vincent de Paul in Cork has hit out at the Communion and Confirmation spending culture at the centre of the hardship state support row, urging people to remember the sacraments themselves “cost nothing”.

Michael Clifford on the demise of Custom House Capital and the missing €56 million

ARTIST Alexandra Trotsenko, whose fingers were hacked off in a brutal attack, says her life has been turned around by RTÉ’s Joe Duffy and Liveline.

A CONSULTANT anaesthetist, who has left several gastric band patients in the lurch after he closed his clinic without anynotice, has been suspended by his new employers at Ennis General Hospital.

ULSTER Bank was yesterday forced to defend its policies after a woman contacted Liveline to complain that she had been sent a letter by the bank over arrears totalling 3 cent.

THERE’S no smoke without ire, it seems.

CONVICTED paedophile Derry O’Rourke is living in Co Cavan, it emerged yesterday.

STUDENTS who were given the wrong English papers at a Drogheda school on Wednesday morning had less than a minute to read the questions before having them taken away again.

FINE GAEL has accused the Government of failing to fulfil promises to rid prisons of mobile phones.

LORD MAYOR of Cork Brian Bermingham is reportedly lined up to speak at a health conference at Cork City Hall which is being organised by the controversial religious group, the Church of Scientology.

A NUMBER of brides-to-be have been thrown into panic after a wedding car service belonging to Dublin solicitor Thomas Byrne was closed up without advance warning.

CLAIMS that an elderly patient had been mistreated at a HSE psychiatric home in Ennis were yesterday dismissed by his widow.

THE aunt of the woman raped by sex beast James O’Donoghue yesterday labelled the €70,000 award a disgrace.

THE shock retirement of Fr Maurice ‘Mossie’ Dillane for fathering a child sparked a massive outpouring of public support and sympathy yesterday.

The Catholic Church is losing its best priests because they can’t get married, supporters of a cleric forced to retire after fathering a child today claimed.

JUST before Christmas in 1996, an elderly farmer was awoken in the early hours of the morning. Pat Duggan lived alone in an isolated cottage near Claregalway in Co Galway.

NOTHING illustrates the cruelty of modern politics like the stitching up of Royston Brady in the run-up to the European elections, and his eventual vindication when it was too late to do him any good.

YOU know the plot of the film yourself. An ordinary guy is offered a million bucks to allow himself be cuckolded, to give up everything that’s precious to him.

FURIOUS clerical workers at Independent Newspapers could decide on strike action tomorrow.

THE Minister for Health has given us a smoking ban. The Tánaiste wants to look after elderly people.

NORMALLY, it’s the other way around. You see the words ‘archbishop’, ‘hurt’ and ‘remark’ and you can join the dots. Archbishop Connell must have spoken his mind again. Perhaps he’s made a comment on inter-communion or marriage, or some other touchy subject. The Irish Times is offended. Liberal theologians are lamenting. Outraged callers are ringing Liveline.

A RECENT Prime Time survey on the Church threw up an interesting but largely unreported statistic: compared to 90% of people who saw the role of doctors as very important, only 22% of people gave this rating to politicians, and journalists got a mere 20%.

THE Rape Crisis Network Ireland has expressed concern at the large number of elderly people convicted of sex abuse offences who have all or some of their sentences suspended.