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BISHOPS criticised in the Pope’s pastoral letter could come under renewed pressure to resign after the message to Irish Catholics sparked anger among some victims’ groups.
UP to 30,000 homeowners have been forced to switch to interest-only payments on their mortgages because of financial difficulties.
MEMBERS of the Defence Forces have been court- martialed for going absent without leave, assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice, according to new data.
POLICE forces around the world contacted Irish authorities more than 200 times in the past two years over cases where stolen or missing Irish passports were being used.
HERE is the full text of the pastoral letter from Pope Benedict XVI about clerical abuse in Ireland:
UNDER-FIRE bishops are likely to face further pressure, following direct criticism by the Pope of their handling of clerical child sex abuse.
POPE BENEDICT’S plans to send an “apostolic visitation” to Ireland shows he has failed to acknowledge the inability of secret Church procedures to address clerical sex abuse, a survivor has said.
THE HSE has told a Waterford girl in foster care that she has one month to find a place to live, now that she has turned 18.
AN Irish official in Brussels, David O’Sullivan, is being touted for the post of secretary general of the EU’s new foreign service.
AROUND 10,000 construction jobs are expected to be created as part of planned Government investment in the country’s outdated water pipe network.
AN Irish-owned company in Spain has denied it is involved in distributing what Amnesty International calls “tools of torture”.
COMMUNITY protests against head shops will step up a gear this week when a picket is held outside the Dáil on Wednesday.
A 21-YEAR-OLD man has died and two others hospitalised after a stolen vehicle collided with a taxi in a suspected joyride tragedy.
CALLS to abolish the presidency received loud applause as Fine Gael debated major constitutional reform at its national conference.
FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has set out the policy pitch he hopes will deliver a resounding victory in the next General Election.
INTERNAL party divisions emerged for the second year running over proposals to restrict the right of grassroots members to pick election candidates.
THE era of Electric Enda is upon us.
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