A 113 year-old Irish woman, currently living in New York, is on course to become the oldest person in Irish history in just over a month.

FAMILIES of elderly patients in permanent care at St Camillus Hospital in Limerick say many are very distressed at a HSE decision to move them from wards where they have been cared for many years.

UNDER pressure fromanti-abuse campaigners, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has been forced to confirm that three Irish priests accused of abusing children, including the notorious Brendan Smyth, worked there in the past.