The Kerry-born cop who solved a notorious murder spree in New York is remembered in a TV documentary to be aired this week.

Waterford’s pre-eminent football clubs have always been viewed in a different light to the county’s flagship side.

With requests for exorcism on the rise, Louise Roseingrave looks back at an incident in Inchigeela, Co Cork, 30 years ago.

Today, March 10

For more than 40 years she cared for a legendary Co Cork church.

Warm tributes have poured in from across the political spectrum to former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, whose death at 55 has shocked Westminster.

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

Tales of ghost ships and a hidden city are among a wealth of folklore explored by a pioneering heritage trail in a spectacular part of Clare which could provide a template for a series of walking routes along the Wild Atlantic Way.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in finding missing 21-year-old, Paul Davey.

If your sat nav is a bit out of date or Google maps ain’t your thing, a cool €2m to €3.2m could net you the oldest known standalone map of Ireland.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has confirmed his intention to submit his letter of resignation to the Pope within two weeks.

Cork is keeping its bonfire night safe thanks to a local initiative, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Sq m: 90 (970 sq ft)

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has joined the Archbishop of Dublin in calling for an independent public inquiry into the deaths of children at religious-run mother-and-baby homes.

Sq m: 93 (1,000sq ft)

The sick, elderly and bereaved in the diocese of Cork are suffering as there are not enough priests to cater for their spiritual needs.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has distanced himself from comments made by a priest who asked mourners at a funeral to pray that former lord mayor of Cork, John Murray, would be found not guilty of sex assault charges.

Don’t judge the book by the cover, or the property by the modest street facade, at Abbey Lodge.

A former farm manager will be tending to new flocks after becoming the first Catholic priest ordained in the Diocese of Cork and Ross for two years.

Two new stamps marking the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy’s historic visit to Ireland have been printed.

The Catholic Church will not reject people because they use contraception, don’t attend Mass every Sunday, have sex outside marriage or live lives that run counter to the ideals of the Church, according to the Bishop of Cork and Ross.

DESIGNED as territories of spiritual and temporal control, Ireland’s diocesan structures date from the Synod of Kells in 1152. The bishop was a spiritual ‘capo’ and a lord who ruled.

THERE was the persistent presence of a sexual predator working in Baltimore Industrial School.

A Dublin priest has said that if an audit were done of every religious congregation in the country, many more cases of child abuse - and their cover-up - would be revealed.

A long-serving bishop has sparked a storm of controversy over his fitness for the job after revealing he once thought paedophilia was “friendship gone too far”.

Three priests convicted of child abuse in the UK retired to the diocese of Cork and Ross, according to the Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog.

Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay has described as "a childish excuse" comments from Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby that he previously regarded paedophilia as a "friendship that crossed a boundary line".

An audit of child safeguarding practices at the diocese of Cork and Ross has found that 26 priests had allegations of abuse made against them between 1975 and 2011.

The Bishop of Clonfert has today apologised for moving two priests from one parish to another in the 1990s after they abused children.

Seven reports into child safe-guarding practices in the Catholic church will be published this morning.

Investigations into child protection practices in the diocese of Cork and Ross, Limerick, Clonfert and Kildare, and Leighlin will be published by the Church today.

Foreign priests like Fr Kazimierz Nawalaniec will ensure Irish Catholics will be able to attend a full Mass in 15 or 20 years time, according to the Bishop of Cork and Ross.

Paula Grant secured a healthy top 10 finish and was the leading Irish competitor in the Ladies British Open Strokeplay Championship at Shandon Park in Belfast yesterday.

Bishop John Buckley has said the declining number of priests is impacting more and more on his diocese as he announced plans to prioritise hospital chaplaincies and the pastoral care of the sick, dying, and bereaved.

A Catholic bishop has warned Education Minister Ruairi Quinn not to rush ahead with plans to put primary schools currently managed by the Church under secular control.

THE Catholic diocese of Cork and Ross has announced a reduction in the number and frequence of Masses to be celebrated in churches as a result of the shortage of priests.

PARISH priests in the Cork and Ross diocese have introduced two new quarterly collections to meet a deficit in their finances.

PRIESTS in the Diocese of Cloyne have yet officially to discuss reaction to the Cloyne Report, two months after it was published.

Priests from all over Cork were due to meet today to air their views on the findings of the Cloyne Report.