A retired Catholic priest said he recognised the saintliness of Mother Teresa when he met her more than 40 years ago as he joined 120,000 people in St Peter's Square at the Vatican for her canonisation.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions will learn next week if his appeal over the leniency of the sentence handed down to child killer Wayne O’Donoghue was successful.

A man has died in a suspected hit-and-run in the early hours of this morning.