Renegade bishop Michael Cox charged a teenage couple — one of them underage — €100 for a ‘sham’ marriage.

A judge directed that renegade bishop Michael Cox be investigated by gardaí concerning a marriage he allegedly performed involving a “naive” 17-year-old Co Clare boy and a Cork girl.

BACK in the day, fashion models were mostly refined young ladies taking a twirl on the catwalk before Mr Right swept them up the aisle to a life of privileged obscurity.

BACK in the spring of 2007, contract talks between John Terry and Chelsea broke down.

ORDAINED singer Sinéad O’Connor believes the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, should be expelled from the country because of what she calls the contempt displayed by the Vatican to the Murphy Commission on clerical child abuse.

TWO villages. One whale carcass. And the Minister for the Environment stuck in the middle.

SCORES of jubilant villagers trooped to Sarah Obama’s home in western Kenya yesterday to savour her grandson’s victory as US Democratic party presidential nominee.

A controversial bishop today appealed for a donor to replace his ‘floating church’ ship which caught fire and sank off the coast of Galway.

TUG-OF-LOVE woman Kathleen McCarthy O’Reilly is to be buried by her parents in Askeaton, Co Limerick, on Friday next by order of the High Court.

Jimmy Woulfe Mid-West, Correspondent

Former child model LeBlanc suffered a fall and that was followed by several hundred sessions of electroshock therapy; and this most unusual diary documentary which manages to engage on an emotional level and delight on a technical one.

A controversial cleric who once ordained singer Sinead O’Connor today carried out an exorcism of the Dáil.

MULTINATIONAL firms in a busy business hub are considering shipping commercial waste to Holland from January in a bid to cut disposal costs.

Sinead O'Connor has married her boyfriend in a secret ceremony.