The Archdiocese of Dublin is due to get a new priest today.

Survivors of institutional abuse will march on the Dáil today.

President Mary McAleese will be one of the participants at religious celebrations in St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin this morning.

BECAUSE I am not a Catholic, I was reluctant to wade into the Bishop Magee controversy. The Ferns diocese in Co Wexford went through a decade of turmoil, which Cloyne is now experiencing. We discovered more than 100 individual allegations of clerical sexual abuse between 1962 and 2002. These involved 21 priests.

Books of condolence for former President Patrick Hillery are due to open today at various locations in Dublin and his native Co Clare.

Former President of Ireland Dr Patrick Hillery will be given a full state funeral on Wednesday, the Government announced today.

ONE of the country’s leading charities yesterday appealed for unwanted Christmas gifts.

A public parade is being held in Dublin today to call for action on climate change.

A HOSPITAL where a paedophile priest worked is to contact dozens of families to investigate whether patients were abused there.

THE words were eloquent but the silence said it better.

The Pro Cathedral in Dublin was full to capacity today for a special mass to commemorate the 2,800 people who died in last year’s attack on New York and Washington.