THE Government was called on yesterday to urgently sign an international protocol allowing United Nations (UN) inspectors to visit places of detention in Ireland.

Hundreds of thousands of young people from 184 countries jammed into Cologne, Germany, for the Roman Catholic Church’s 20th World Youth Day, singing and praying together as they awaited the arrival today of Pope Benedict XVI.

Hundreds of thousands of young people from 184 countries jammed into the western German city of Cologne for the Roman Catholic Church’s 20th World Youth Day, singing and praying together as they awaited the arrival today of Pope Benedict XVI.