Church authorities spelled out their opposition to planned abortion legislation during a meeting with the Government yesterday.

CARDINAL Cahal B Daly was born in Loughguile, in the Glens of Antrim, on October 1 1917. He was educated at St Patrick’s National School in Loughguile, and then as a boarder in St Malachy’s College, Belfast, in 1930.

A LEADING support group for victims of child sex abuse has dismissed the Catholic Church’s new child protection guidelines as a “giant step backwards”.