THE Bishop of Kerry Dr Bill Murphy has announced plans for neighbouring parishes to pool their resources, forming pastoral clusters to be co-ordinated by a priest with the title, vicar forane.

AN ICONIC cathedral and leading tourist attraction is poised to get a €1 million council grant to help with repairs.

A replacement was tonight announced for Peter Barrett, who resigned as Bishop of Cashel and Ossory in January after separating from his wife.

IRELAND’S commitment to the world’s poor has long been a source of national pride and international respect.

A cathedral verger had a job offer retracted shortly after it was revealed that he lived with his homosexual partner, it was claimed today.

A former nurse who claims to have killed 30 to 40 patients since 1987 has been charged with murder in the US.

A former nurse who claims to have killed 30 to 40 patients since 1987 was charged with murder today, prosecutors in the United States said.

A PARISH priest made an impassioned plea for peace yesterday at the funeral of a Limerick murder victim.

TEARS welled in the dark eyes of Michelle Walls yesterday as she endured the nightmare of every wife and parent.

THE first advertising campaign to advertise the “true meaning” of Christmas is to be launched by a church, it emerged yesterday.

IT would be an understatement to say that the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Very Rev Robert McCarthy, is unafraid of controversy.

A valuable first edition of Gulliver’s Travels, annotated by Jonathan Swift, has been safely returned to the building it was stolen from 20 months ago.

A row broke out today between the Government and senior figures in the country’s two main churches over plans by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his partner Celia Larkin formally to host a reception at Dublin Castle.