The head of the Catholic Church in Dublin today told bishops implicated in a sickening report into child sex abuse to look in to their consciences.

I was pleased to read Senator Geraldine Feeney (October 24) on the bad manners and intolerance shown by pensioners in St Andrew’s Church in Dublin when they shouted down two ministers of state and a Green party speaker.

IT MIGHT be stretching it just a little to suggest that the crowd of protesters — estimates vary between 12,000 and 15,000 — who protested outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday laid siege to our parliament.

Thousands of pensioners are expected to take to the streets of Dublin today to protest over new Budget reforms to means test the over-70s for a medical card.

OLDER people have vowed to tear up forms for medical card means tests and not give a single vote to Fianna Fáil and the Green party in next year’s local and European elections.

Angry fans gathered outside Newcastle United’s ground to protest at manager Kevin Keegan’s apparent second departure from the club after less than eight months in charge.

GARDAÍ are now certain that a mother and her two grown-up children drowned in a north Cork river last Sunday, and not on Monday as first thought.

People around the globe will be able to enjoy a traditional Irish Christmas service in their own home for the first time this year.

The families of murdered Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman cannot face being there on the first anniversary of the deaths, police said today.

The community of Soham now needs to be left to grieve in peace over the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the town’s vicar said today.