From his stylish living room overlooking St Peter’s Square, Cardinal Walter Kasper doesn’t come off as a figure at the centre of one of the greatest storms swirling in Catholicism in decades.

Pope Francis has warned Vatican administrators that their work can take a downward spiral into mediocrity, gossip and bureaucratic squabbling if they forget that theirs is a professional vocation of service to the church.

A Tipperary woman has told a murder trial that she looked out her window one night last year and saw her neighbour beating his father with a shovel.

THE planned dredging of Bantry’s inner harbour will pave the way for proposed developments costing up to €12 million in the world famous west Cork bay.