If we were able to peer through the smokescreen of all the legal niceties surrounding the abortion issue, we could see the effort to justify a mother taking the life of her unborn child is the absolute contradiction of Christianity.

MORE than 500 family friends and work colleagues gathered together in silent mourning last night to escort the body of murdered teenager Sheola Keaney to Cobh Cathedral ahead of her burial this afternoon.

IT’S celebration time, but the party piece, the age old St Patrick’s Day parade, is in danger.