I HAVE it from a reliable source that the poor Pope in the Vatican was in very bad humour yesterday morning.

ARCHBISHOP Dermot Clifford has written to the National Council for Special Education asking them to review a decision to drastically cut the hours of a special needs assistant (SNA) caring for a seven-year-old schoolgirl who has Down syndrome.

THE part-time security man murdered in Limerick early yesterday was the stepfather of the Murray children Millie and Gavin who were badly burned in a fire-bomb attack in Moyross last September.

A SUICIDE note left by Fr Sean Fortune was never disclosed to the Garda and instead destroyed by a priest who feared it was a deliberate attempt to destroy Bishop Brendan Comiskey.

Sex scandal secretary Faria Alam has lost her employment tribunal case against England's Football Association.

ENGLAND manager Sven Goran Eriksson’s former lover sent scores of explicit emails to friends and colleagues bragging about her high-profile sexual conquests, a tribunal heard yesterday.

A former secretary who claims she was sexually harassed by FA executive director David Davies sent a series of salacious emails detailing her affairs with other senior figures, a tribunal heard today.

A MAJOR garda security operation will be in place in Askeaton today and tomorrow for the funeral of Kathleen McCarthy-O’Reilly.

CLUTCHING rosaries, medals and flowers, thousands of people filed past the simple white marble tomb of Pope John Paul II yesterday as the Vatican reopened the grottoes beneath St Peter’s Basilica for the first time since the Pope died.