IRISH society must acknowledge that it needs to address a series of problems as concerning as the clerical abuse scandal before the safety of children in this country can be assured.

I WAS one of many people who saw a radiant Nuala O’Faolain speaking at the Merriman Summer School in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, in August last year. She gave a presentation to a symposium entitled What Were We Like? during which she was joined by novelist Anne Enright.

COUPLES should be allowed make a legally binding commitment never to divorce, one of the State’s leading family law experts advocated last night.

STUDENTS from all over the country are busy setting up stands at the RDS in Dublin today to compete for the prize of Young Scientist of the Year.