A Co Kerry priest has lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland over the “ridiculing of the Eucharist” on the Late Late Show.

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

A loving mother of two killed in the Tunisia beach massacre will be remembered for her goodness and kindness, her funeral Mass has heard.

Hundreds queued yesterday to pay their respects to the Athlone couple who were murdered at a beach-side resort in Tunisia a week ago.

Just a day after she should have been celebrating her 19th birthday, Dublin teenager Ana Hick, who died after taking esctasy, was laid to rest following a packed funeral Mass.

A bunch of green balloons were released into the sky as a community, "bereft of words", laid to rest one of its youngest, two-year-old David Roche, who died last Sunday.

A heartbroken mother was brought to church in a wheelchair to say a final farewell to her only child who died in a road crash.

Counselling is being provided to students at a rural Co Offaly school after an 11-year-old pupil died yesterday morning in a road accident.

A church and graveyard in south Kilkenny have been attacked by vandals who caused thousands of euro worth of damage.

The wife of a mine worker killed in an underground rockfall wept yesterday as she thanked the emergency services for ensuring her husband’s remains were recovered from the mine.

Prayer candles burned brightly in the church where Maeve Binchy’s funeral took place yesterday — a poignant reminder of the writer’s first book, Light a Penny Candle.

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of Maeve Binchy in Dublin.

THE relatives of a father of two killed in a violent feud have no wish to see another family suffer a similar tragedy, his requiem Mass in Cork heard yesterday.

A CHARRED crucifix has become the symbol for a group of priests who decided to hold a 24-hour fast as a mark of their hurt and sorrow at the Church’s child abuse scandals.

THE pregnant widow of a man killed in the Cork Airport plane crash clutched her young daughters’ hands yesterday as she walked behind his coffin.

The pregnant wife of a man killed in Thursday's plane crash at Cork Airport clutched her young daughters’ hands today as she walked behind his coffin.

Mourners will say a final farewell today to the first victims to be buried from the Cork plane crash that claimed six lives.

THE emergency services who saved six of the 12 passengers of last Thursday’s fateful Manx2 flight, were given a spontaneous round of applause as they attended a Mass in memory of the victims yesterday.

SURVIVORS of doomed flight NM7100 gave graphic details last night of the terrifying final moments on board the plane, which crashed in dense fog at Cork Airport.

A CHAPTER of the Murphy Report detailing child sex abuse carried out by former priest Tony Walsh will be published next week after a High Court ruling yesterday.

One of Ireland’s highest ranking Catholics today denounced the Church for having grown self-centred and arrogant in the wake of the clerical child abuse scandals.

SHANE CLANCY was finally laid to rest yesterday, with mourners at his funeral told of the “cruel darkness” which led to his tragic death and that of Sebastian Creane last weekend.

The only suspect in a horrific murder-suicide that left two people dead had become overwhelmed by darkness, mourners at his funeral Mass heard today.

The 22-year-old student at the centre of last weekend's murder-suicide in Bray is due to be laid to rest later today.

THE late writer, Hugh Leonard, received the traditional applause of the theatre world at his funeral mass in Dalkey yesterday at what mourners were told was his “final curtain call”.

The extinction of playwright and columnist Hugh Leonard’s dazzling energy has left Ireland a poorer place, his funeral heard today.

The funeral of award-winning playwright Hugh Leonard is taking place in Dublin today.

The removal takes place this evening of the late writer Hugh Leonard, who died last week at the age of 82.

Murdered advertising executive Celine Cawley was laid to rest today as mourners paid tribute to a woman of flair who acted with panache and style.

The 46-year-old media executive found dead at her home in north Co Dublin last week is due to be laid to rest later today.

Conor Cruise O'Brien is due to be laid to rest at Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin today.

MANY people were moved to tears yesterday, on hearing a touching family tribute to a father and son who were murdered a week yesterday.

The father and son shot dead at their home in Co Kerry last week are due to be laid to rest at Murher cemetery this afternoon.

The removals of the father and son shot dead in Co Kerry last week are due to take place in Listowel this evening.

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy who died at the weekend after his bicycle collided with a hackney cab has been named as Dylan Stark.

Memorial services are taking place in Co Meath today to mark the first anniversary of last year's Kentstown bus crash.

THE FAMILY of murder victim Siobhan Kearney made an impassioned plea yesterday for her killer to be caught.

The removals of the victims of a double shooting at the weekend will take place this evening.

MOURNERS attending the funerals of the victims of the Co Meath bus crash were told their deaths were not in vain if they prompted the country to think of the welfare of our children.

TWO young girls taken way before their time, two funeral Masses, two slow processions to the graveyard, one community.

A father tonight praised a heroic teenager who rescued his injured daughter from the worst schoolbus crash in Irish history.

TWO brothers who survived the worst school bus crash in Irish history yesterday spoke of their despair at the death of their cousin.

AS dusk fell, an uneasy silence was restored with the departure of the emergency helicopters. Students who had not been on the bus began to drift towards the place where their friends had died.

A GROUP of council workers, who were surfacing the road only yards from the crash, were first on the scene.