The Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy has ordered an examination into the findings of the Murphy report on clerical sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.
There has been widespread criticism of the decision by Dublin City Council to issue notice of construction on the controversial incinerator at Poolbeg.
A politician in the North is calling on the Government here to hold an inquiry into possible collusion between the Defence Forces and dissident Republicans.
The Minister for Social Affairs Mary Hanafin has said the Government will consider increasing the humanitarian fund for flood victims if needed, but insists there's no "bottomless pit".
A 45-year-old Tipperary man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl after driving her to a remote woodlands in County Offaly nine years ago has been jailed for three years by Mr Justice Barry White.
The Catholic Church's 'don't ask, don't tell' cover-up culture exposed in a damning clerical abuse report is dead and gone, a senior cleric said today.
The Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny is calling for the resignation of senior Church figures named in the Murphy report as having helped to cover-up clerical child abuse.
