A Catholic bishop has said the recommendations of Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry should be implemented with goodwill.

Cork’s greater balance in front of goal propelled them past Monaghan and into a first All-Ireland U21 final since 2013.

Monaghan are through to a first Ulster U21 FC final since 2007 after a comfortable semi-final win over Armagh in Newry last night.

Donegal qualified for their third successive Ulster U21 Football Championship final with a comfortable win over 14-man Monaghan in atrocious conditions at Healy Park last night.

Corofin produced an hour of scintillating football to put an end to St Vincent’s reign as AIB All-Ireland senior club football champions.

Fullen Gaels (Manchester)2-18 Castleblayney (Monaghan) 1-7: AIB All-Ireland Club JHC semi-final

Dublin SFC final

A man being tried for the murder of an elderly man in a psychiatric unit in Co Cavan has changed his plea to guilty of manslaughter.

Truagh Gaels 2-21 Kiltane 2-13

A priest facing several sex abuse allegations asked to be dismissed and went on to work in a job which gave him access to children, the church watchdog has found.

Mayo 3-19 Monaghan 1-12

Tyrone were crowned Ulster minor football champions for the 23rd time, following a composed and assured performance at Clones yesterday.

Monaghan turned on the style in the second half to book their place in the Ulster MFC semi-finals.

Investigations are continuing in Co. Cavan into a bank robbery which occurred in Kingscourt yesterday evening.

An example needs to be made of politicians who make negative comments about immigrants if Ireland is to avoid going down a route of an “accepted rhetoric or racism”, Integration Ireland has warned.

An outspoken Monaghan county councillor has blasted foreign nationals who claim social welfare benefits, saying they will make the system collapse.

A priest wrongly accused of sexual abuse has returned to full ministry.

A senior Catholic cleric in the North has temporarily stood aside, it emerged today.

FOLLOWING a meeting of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and SIPTU member nurses at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital yesterday, the unions have sought a meeting with HSE management tomorrow to discuss the decision to close 25 beds at the hospital.

THE Health Service Executive has rejected pleas from unions not to impose cost-containment measures aimed at meeting a €16 million overspend at the mid-west’s largest hospital.

Nurses at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin are to mount industrial action due to overcrowding.

GARDAÍ are continuing to question a man after the body of an elderly pensioner suffering from dementia was found at a public hospital’s in-patient mental health unit.

Down’s innate sense of their own worth comes from schools success – and nowhere is more pronounced than in St Colman’s in Newry. Brendan O’Brien paid a visit to the home of the All-Ireland SFC colleges champions

Government and society must have the guts to confront past wrongs in the North if the region is to look to a better future, a senior Catholic Church leader said today.

The Catholic Church today backed calls for an independent inquiry into the British Army killings of 11 people in west Belfast almost 40 years ago.

THE BISHOP of Down and Connor Dr Noel Treanor has said the Church, Government and other institutions of the state “must encourage and foster courageous leadership” if we are to rebuild people’s trust in society.

The Pope today hailed the peace-building work of Ireland’s former Roman Catholic Primate, Cardinal Cahal Daly, as his body lay in state in Belfast.

Hundreds of mourners paid respects Cardinal Cahal Daly today as his remains were laid in state in a Belfast cathedral closely associated with his ministry.

An "impressionable" young Dublin man with no previous convictions has been sentenced to seven years in prison for transporting €140,000 of drugs for a man whom he claimed protected him from bullies.

CATHOLIC bishops have told their flock they are free to vote Yes to Lisbon without reserve and in good conscience.

Nurses will today stage an all-out strike at Sligo General Hospital as a dispute over staffing levels escalates.

LIFE assurer Eagle Star wants the High Court to stop the Equality Tribunal case of an equality officer who claims her income protection policy was 100% loaded because she was overweight.

A DETECTIVE garda sergeant has claimed that a chief superintendent was personally biased against him in the handling of his application for higher rank.

IRELAND’S second largest Catholic diocese got a new bishop yesterday when Monsignor Noel Treanor was ordained as Bishop of Down and Connor at a special ceremony in St Peter’s Cathedral in Belfast.

A VATICAN diplomat who has served in some of the most violent situations in the world is the Holy See’s new representative in Ireland.

The Sinn Féin Mayor of Monaghan today said he hoped to visit Canada before his term in office ends, despite being refused entry to the country.

Sue Smith has yet to decide whether to send Ross Comm on a retrieval mission in Monday’s Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse.

RECORD overcrowding at Letterkenny General Hospital created a “New Year nightmare” for patients and staff, it was claimed yesterday.

A MECHANIC in a small town in County Monaghan hanged himself in the woods after a botched attempt to murder his wife.

A Fianna Fáil councillor in Co Monaghan has reportedly paid the Revenue Commissioners €66,000 in back taxes and penalties.

BOTH sides in the doctors’ dispute said they were confident they could resolve an impasse over rostering, ending any further threat of strike action.