Sarah Murphy and David Quinn THE Catholic Church here is facing another severe blow to its authority when a damning report on the series of clerical sex scandals, which rocked the diocese of Ferns, is made public within weeks. Publication of the report has been delayed for legal

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Miriam Lord THE ritual doesn't change: celebration suffused with solemnity, as the Irish State confers official approval upon its First Citizen, properly done in accordance with the Constitution. Some nations like to make a big fuss about this sort of occasion, but in Dublin Cas

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mins. one way DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL Planning permission is sought for retention of existing priecting Illuminated sign to front of No. 64 Dame Street, Dublin 2 for Lemon Blossom Ltd. The planning application may be inspected or purchased between the hours of 9.00a.m. - 4.30p.m et

Niamh O'Donoghue A FORMER champion breeder refused to pay a demand for €lO,OOO after two greyhounds he owned were taken from kennels. The ransom demand for the dogs' return was made shortly after the dogs were taken from Lughill Kennels, Monasterevin, Co Kildare, on Saturday, Oc

A MAN who stabbed a woman musician friend last year in a bizarre attack has been found dead at his home. _ .__. Tim John O'Riordan (68), who stabbed and seriously injured 44-years-old Audrey O'Carroll, had been physiotherapist to Duhallow football team and was an advocate of alt

HIGHER school and college fees pushed annual inflation up to 2.7pc in October, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show. Increases in the costs of third-level tuition and maintenance, private secondary education and playschools were the biggest contributor to an overa

Ray Managh A JUDGE has thrown out a €38,000 damages claim by a seven-year-old boy who cut his leg while playing in a burned-out car. Judge Gerald Keyes said the defendant, Dublin City Council, had a reasonable system in place whereby dangerous and abandoned cars were cleared fro