The District Court judge dealing with the case against a councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Queen Victoria told him to go to the High Court if he wanted to raise the issue of having a judge fluent in Irish for the case.

The councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria had his evidence translated from Irish in Cork District Court yesterday, but he said the Irish-language issue in the proceedings should be referred to the High Court, writes Liam Heylin.

The investigation into the blacking out of street signs named after Britain’s Queen Victoria resulted in a councillor and two other men being charged at Cork District Court yesterday.

The Manchester Arena will reopen for the first time since the terror attack with a benefit concert to honour those killed in the bombing.

A politician who was arrested and questioned about a controversial campaign to deface Cork street signs with links to historical British figures said he is prepared to contest any charges he may face.

The hard work, commitment and generosity of 65 Gaisce Gold recipients has been acknowledged by President Michael D Higgins.

Former ‘singing priest’ Tony Walsh has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for raping a boy three times, once with a crucifix.

Former “singing” priest Tony Walsh has been jailed for seven and half years for raping a boy three times, once with a crucifix.

Former “singing priest” Tony Walsh, aged 62, faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison for raping a boy with a crucifix, a court has heard.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Former “singing” priest Tony Walsh has been convicted of sexually abusing a young boy.

Former priest and serial abuser Tony Walsh has received a sentence of one year imprisonment for the sexual assault of a child in the early 1970s.

Our President has said the EU treatment of migrants is shameful. Is it not shameful that a taxpayer-funded naval vessel is collecting migrants for resettlement in Europe?

Our President has said the EU treatment of Mediterranean migrants is shameful.

“You had a smile for everyone, hands for boxing and a face for the ladies. We can’t picture our family without you.”

Members of both teacher unions picketing at Mayfield Community School were resolute yesterday in their opposition to marking their own students for Junior Certificate.

We have recently read and heard reports of the increasing market share being gained by the two discount supermarkets, Aldi and Lidl.

Former priest and serial child abuser Tony Walsh has failed in appeals against separate sentences of 16 years and 15 months imposed on him for what the Court of Criminal Appeal has described as the “depraved” rape and sexual abuse of young boys in the 1970s and 1980s.

If the rest of the summer on Valentia island is anything like June, the ice-creams in Tony Walsh’s shop will be selling like — well — hot cakes.

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A High Court judge has ruled this evening that the Murphy report into child abuse in the Dublin Catholic archdiocese can be published in full.

A former priest who is serving a 16-year sentence for the rape and abuse of schoolboys has had 15 months added to this sentence for abusing two other boys in the ’70s and ’80s.

Tony Walsh who has been dubbed 'Singing Priest' is to spend a further 15 months in jail for sexually abusing two boys in Dublin.

A former priest who received a 16 year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of nine boys in the 70s and 80s has admitted abusing two other boys.

A publisher has offered to give every second-level student free ebooks and cheaper text books for a share of the Department of Education €14m school book budget.

Nagle Community College’s bid to retain their Umbro FAI Schools John Murphy All-Ireland title ended in heartbreak in yesterday’s extra-time thriller at Waterford RSC.

SATURDAY

A former Dublin priest and notorious serial sex offender sentenced to 16 years for abusing three victims has failed in an appeal against his conviction.

The High Court has continued a ban on the publication of a chapter of the Dublin Catholic Archdiocese abuse report.

DOZENS of cyclists will saddle up this weekend to help fund life-saving cancer treatment in the US for a Cork toddler.

The Justice Minister Alan Shatter is to apply to the High Court for directions concerning publication of a report into child sex abuse allegations in the diocese of Cloyne.

A LETTER sent to Irish bishops in 1997 shows that the Vatican secretly blocked attempts to report paedophile priests to gardaí.

NOTORIOUS convicted paedophile Tony Walsh has given a description of the inmate who knifed him in the face in prison on Sunday.

COMING, as it does, just weeks after former priest and voracious paedophile and serial liar Tony Walsh was sentenced to 123 years in jail for the most appalling abuses, and as the publication of the report into how claims of child sexual abuse were dealt with in the Diocese of Cloyne is anticipated, the Pope’s Christmas message seems limp, wrong-headed and uninspiring.

-1954: Tony Walsh is born.

“A VERY disturbed man who is always going to be dangerous. He could not be let near schools, children, confession without a grille...”

ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Diarmuid Martin unequivocally apologised for the Church’s failure to prevent child abuse in the wake of the publication of chapter 19 of the Murphy report.

DESCRIBED by Dublin’s leading cleric as a “horrendous narrative” the Murphy report is, to date, the most detailed examination of the crimes against children perpetrated by some Catholic priests, and their cover-up, in any part of the country.

TWO unrelated events yesterday, and another on Thursday, suggest that we needlessly pay a very heavy price for our innate conservatism.

A cardinal, several bishops and gardaí face damning criticism tonight over revelations a serial paedophile priest was free to abuse for 16 years.