DEREK O’Connor is in virtually unstoppable form at present and the Galwegian, well on course to win an eighth consecutive point-to-point riders championship, partnering a sparkling four-timer at yesterday’s well-attended Bartlemy fixture.

A MAJOR rift has emerged in the Catholic Church over the handling of the child abuse scandal after 18 religious orders rejected urgings from the country’s two most senior clerics to reconsider their stance on the indemnity deal.

“MY story, which is true, should be published in my own name.”

I WOULD like to put on record that the pseudonym “Noah Kitterick” employed by the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse refers to Peter Tyrrell.