The leadership of the Protestant Churches of Ireland have to finally accept their historic responsibility as their counterparts in the Catholic Church did recently in Scotland. 

One of Cork’s largest towns is set to become a test location for the future shaping of Ireland’s regional towns.

The Government has bowed to national and international pressure over the scandal of the death of 4,000 babies who were buried in unmarked, unconsecrated and mass graves at homes for unmarried mothers.

The financial contribution from the Department of Justice towards the erection of a memorial headstone at Mount Jerome Cemetery in remembrance of those babies and children who died while in the care of the Bethany Home in Dublin is to be welcomed (Derek Leinster, Remembering Bethany, March 1).

I want to pay tribute to Dublin City Council, for backing the Bethany Survivors’ Group, and for saying that the State should apologise to, and compensate, Bethany victims.

Survivors of the Bethany Home have vowed to take their case to the UN following the Government’s decision not compensate its former residents.

Protestant church leaders have historically looked ‘the other way’, when it came to dealing with the abuse and neglect children were subjected to in their institutions.

Derek Leinster's teenage mother gave birth to him in a Bethany home in 1941. He was raised brutally by the State. He has received no compensation and no apology, says Jonathan deBurca Butler.

Survivors of the Protestant-run Bethany Home have claimed it is a form of “discrimination” that they are excluded from justice or redress granted to victims of Catholic-run institutions.

Celebrity chef Derry Clarke and his wife Sallyanne have been inundated with fresh messages of support after it was revealed their teenage son Andrew had taken his own life just after Christmas.

Please allow me to respond to Janet Maxwell, Church of Ireland Head of Communications (Letters, Jan 10). She wrote to you on the Protestant evangelical Bethany Home (that closed in 1972), in response to a column by Victoria White and a subsequent Examiner editorial.

There were emotional scenes as the remains of Andrew Clarke, the son of celebrity chef Derry Clarke and his wife Sallyanne, arrived at the chapel of his old school of Clongowes Wood.

Minutes before this man had been talking about the sanctity of each human life. Now he was dismissing the unmarked graves of the babies who died needlessly at Bethany and the stories of the home’s 25 survivors by saying it wasn’t “technically” a Church of Ireland home.

The distraught mother of teen Andrew Clarke has revealed how she “willed him to live” as she rode with him in the ambulance to Tallaght Hospital.

The Archbishop Of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, attended a memorial service for Bishop KH Ting at Mochou Road Church in Nanjing, China, on Saturday, Dec 8.

We welcome moves to include Westbank Orphanage, Greystones, in inquiries into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

THE survivors of a Protestant home for unmarried mothers where more than 200 babies died have asked for the Government’s position on including it in the redress scheme.

AS a child survivor of the state neglect and abuse in a minority religious institution, I wish to reply to recent letters.

ERIC CONWAY’S letter of December 17th asserts that an ill defined group he termed the “liberal/feminist commentariat” were, amongst other things, “quite sanguine/blase over Bethany House”.

THE number of people whose lives were saved by the late cardiologist, Maurice Neligan, could have filled the church in Dublin where his funeral Mass was held many times over.

SURVIVORS of a state-endorsed Protestant institute for unmarried mothers where more than 200 babies died have called on the Government to compensate them.

Survivors of a Protestant institute for unmarried mothers where more than 200 babies died called today on the Taoiseach Brian Cowen to agree to compensate them.

Almost 220 unmarked graves for forgotten babies who died in a Protestant children’s home were discovered, it was claimed today.

ONE of the key founders of the Irish co-operative movement was commemorated this week with ceremonies in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where he is buried, and in Churchtown, north Cork, where he was born 150 years ago.

Former residents of a Protestant children’s home called today for a permanent memorial at the unmarked graves of 40 forgotten babies.

A FOUNDER of the Irish Co-operative Movement will be honoured at his birthplace in Churchtown, Co Cork, on Saturday.

IT WAS the kind of funeral Terry Keane would have approved of. An elegant church in leafy south Dublin, ladies with perfectly co-ordinated handbag and shoes, wonderfully refined music and a celebrant who doubles as an expert on Caravaggio.

THE family of an 18-year-old who died after being released from garda custody demanded an independent inquiry yesterday into the circumstances behind his death.

The family of an 18-year-old who died after being released from Garda custody today demanded an independent inquiry.

GARDAI are to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions following a shooting incident at a funeral of a teenager who died in a garda station over Christmas.

The funeral takes place today of murdered Dublin crime boss Seamus "Shavo" Hogan.

The removal is due to take place in Dublin this evening of the murdered criminal Seamus Hogan.