Top Stories: Imminent firings are rarely easy for football coaches and their players, but it's hard to predict how Notre Dame will play Saturday night when it visits Stanford in what is probably Charlie Weis' fina... San Francisco Chronicle Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:15:07 -0500Nov 27 2009 The reckless misuse of personal data led to the death of a pensioner and those breaking data protection laws should be jailed, a report by the information watchdog found. The Informati... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:09:41 -0500Nov 27 2009 Labour's failure to increase efficiency in the public sector is costing the taxpayer £60 billion a year, the Tories will claim as they set out plans to achieve "more with less". ... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:09:39 -0500The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland was granted immunity to cover up child sex abuse among paedophile priests in Dublin, a damning report has revealed. Authorities enjoyed a cosy relationship with the... Ananova Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:22:15 -0500DUBLIN — Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland's gov... New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:46:09 -0500Nov 27 2009 Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham is Britain's most intimidating road system, a survey has revealed. As many as 8% of motorists avoid "scary" junctions altogether and drive an average o... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:42:22 -0500Nov 27 2009 Levels of force used by prison officers at Belmarsh high security jail are "extremely high", a report has revealed. Nearly one in five prisoners has been involved in a violent incident... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:42:21 -0500Nov 27 2009 Computer hacker Gary McKinnon could be sent to the US within weeks after the Home Secretary refused to block his extradition. Alan Johnson finally dashed hopes that the Government woul... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:42:21 -0500Colleague concerned by gynaecologist's behaviour THE FAMILIES of two young people who were among five who died in a horrific road crash in Co Donegal have secured more than €200,000 each in sett... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:12 -0500Two families in fatal 2005 crash secure €200,000 A DUBLIN man who hijacked a taxi and reversed it down the Naas Road before driving through the front door of a nightclub has been given a four-ye... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:10 -0500Two families in fatal 2005 crash secure €200,000 A WOMAN whose 40-year-old husband died the day after he underwent a surgical procedure has secured €250,000 in settlement of her High Court... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:09 -0500 is considering whether to appeal the Supreme Court’s decision on costs to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.Editor Geraldine Kennedy said the newspaper would have to conside... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:08 -0500GORDON DEEGAN A CASE against Clare County Council over allowing water untreated for the bug cryptosporidium into the Ennis public water system last year was struck out yesterday.The Director of Public... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:06 -0500LORNA SIGGINS, Western Correspondent HSE WEST has urged parents in the region to have young children immunised against measles, following confirmation of six suspected cases of the illness among child... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:05 -0500SEÁN Mac CONNELL THE IRISH public could be exposed to a disease more dangerous than rabies if the EU removes some requirements in the “Pet Passport” scheme next July.Veterinary Irelan... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:05 -0500SEÁN Mac CONNELL, Agriculture Correspondent THERE HAS been a 30 per cent increase in the number of farmers seeking social welfare through the Farm Assist scheme this year, and over 8,681 are alre... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:04 -0500BARRY ROCHE and PADDY CLANCY MORE THAN 300 jobs are to be lost in Cork and Sligo.In Cork, a wireless technology company announced it was making 150 people redundant less than a year after Tánaist... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:03 -0500JOHN FALLON HEALTH INSPECTORS and Department of Marine officials carried out up to 20 routine inspections of a large fish shop freezer but failed to notice a man’s body hidden there for five yea... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:02 -0500 FINE GAEL’S James Bannon was in full flight, pointing an accusing finger at the Government benches. “Shame on the Government,” he declared.It had failed, he said, to set up a S... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:02 -0500CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor THE MOST crucial issues facing people suffering from mental illness are their treatment and social functioning, according to an Australian expert. Prof Terry Carney... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:01 -0500DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent INCREASING THE number of daily speakers of Irish from 83,000 to 250,000 is a key target in the Government’s... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:00 -0500MICHAEL O'REGAN CONCERN ABOUT the volume of cases led to the current review of the Dublin drug treatment court, Minister of State for Justice John Curran told the Dáil.He said the Minister, Dermo... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:59 -0500 AN UNSUCCESSFUL attempt was made by David Norris (Ind) to have a discussion on yesterday’s “extraordinary” Supreme Court judgment concerning... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:59 -0500MARIE O'HALLORAN A FORMER minister has suggested there may be an “anti-adoption bias” at senior levels of the Department of Health and of the Health Service Executive.Noel Ahern (FF, Dubli... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:57 -0500MICHAEL O'REGAN THE GOVERNMENT was urged by Fine Gael TD Phil Hogan to tackle coal smuggling.“There is evidence of a significant increase in the amount of coal being smuggled into this jurisdict... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:56 -0500GERRY MORIARTY Northern Editor PETER ROBINSON and Martin McGuinness engaged in charge and counter-charge after separately meeting British prime minister Gordon Brown at Downing Street in another attem... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:54 -0500Former Alliance Party chairman Bill Barbour, who is believed by his son, James Barbour, to have taken his own life. Mr Barbour said he believed his parents had decided what they would do if his mother... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:54 -0500HARRY McGEE in Athlone TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen was berated by angry residents during a visit to a housing estate badly affected by flooding in Athlone, Co Westmeath, yesterday.Mr Cowen briefly visited t... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:51 -0500Internet poses huge threat to industry, editor tells forum A Good Samaritan who took in a Swedish woman who was looking for somewhere to stay for the night was stabbed to death by her the following da... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:50 -0500Internet poses huge threat to industry, editor tells forum The chairman of an organisation set up to support survivors of residential abuse has claimed before the High Court he has been threatened by ... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:49 -0500Internet poses huge threat to industry, editor tells forum Advice on maintaining family relationships, staying safe and sexual health is included in a new guide for children and young people in reside... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:46 -0500KITTY HOLLAND THE BEST long-term investment the Government could make to ensure Ireland’s economic recovery would be in early child-care and education, according to a new group of childcare advo... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:42 -0500DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent FIVE ORGANISATIONS involved with different aspects of family life have come together to oppose cuts in child benefit in the forthcoming budge... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:41 -0500STEVEN CARROLL PAY LEVELS increased disproportionately during the Celtic Tiger era and there is now some scope for them to be adjusted but only on an incremental basis, Irish Congress of Trade Unions ... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:40 -0500SEÁN FLYNN THE IRISH National Teachers’ Organisation is demanding fresh funding in the forthcoming budget to implement commitments made in the recent revised programme for government.In a p... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:38 -0500SEÁN FLYNN SECONDARY SCHOOL teachers renewed their criticism of feeder school lists yesterday after the publication of the latest tables.Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) genera... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:37 -0500SEÁN FLYNN, Education Editor STUDENTS AT Trinity College Dublin have begun a campaign against what they claim is a €650,000 cut in the purchasing budget of the college library – and c... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:35 -0500PAUL CULLEN, Consumer Affairs Correspondent THE MAKERS of Fig Rolls, Cream Crackers and other popular biscuits have sent legal warnings to retailers who have sourced the same product, supplied by a ri... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:33 -0500JAMIE SMYTH A GERMAN family have been reunited with their son following a nationwide publicity campaign targeted through the letters’ pages of more than 60 Irish newspapers.Thomas Muffke, a 19-y... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:32 -0500 , published today, examined compliance by retailers with regard to legislation on the sale of cigarettes to minors.It concluded that children have “an unacceptably high chance” of pu... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:32 -0500PAMELA DUNCAN THE HSE has urged parents with children under the age of five to avail of the swine flu vaccine, as it emerged that only a quarter of parents contacted by the HSE so far have brought the... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:30 -0500 THE DELAY by the Government in devising and implementing updated child protection legislation during the 1970s and 1980s “is quite extraordinary”, the Commission of InvestigationR... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:29 -0500 A DECISION by the Archdiocese of Dublin to obtain insurance to protect itself from exposure to claims arising from allegations of child sex abuse by its priests proved to be extraordinarily good... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:28 -0500 A FORMER seminarian, Ken Duggan had a deep sense of trust in the church. So when he reported that a priest was abusing an altar boy in the parish, he assumed something would be done about it imm... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:27 -0500 THE DAMAGE caused by priests and members of religious orders who abused children has affected the victims’ own children, an organisation that helps victims living in the UK has said.Immigr... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:26 -0500 THE REPORT has commended a Dublin priest who was falsely accused of abuse for the manner in which he handled the case.Of the 46 cases of sexual abuse examined, only one priest was found to be fa... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:25 -0500 “THE CHURCH failed us. They failed us as Catholics. They failed me as a human being. They took my soul.”These are the words of one of the complainants who gave evidence to the Dublin... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:23 -0500CAROL COULTER THE GARDA Commissioner has apologised for the fact the response of the Garda Síochána to complaints against priests was inadequate in some cases.In a statement yesterday, Commi... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:22 -0500 “THE CONNIVANCE by the Garda in effectively stifling one complaint and failing to investigate another, and in allowing Fr ‘X’ to leave the country is shocking.”This is th... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:20 -0500 THE HEALTH Service Executive last night acknowledged that the report had highlighted instances where health boards could have done more for the victims of abuse and it apologised to all survivor... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:20 -0500STEPHEN COLLINS Political Editor POLITICAL REACTION: PRESIDENT MARY McAleese has expressed her dismay at the findings of the commission that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up by the Arch... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:18 -0500Our Lady's hospital in Crumlin, Dublin. The first issues in relation to a chaplain at the hospital came to light as long ago as 1960.Photograph: Frank Miller... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:18 -0500 NOT FOR the first time, the Holy See yesterday formally attempted to keep its distance from an Irish clerical sex abuse problem.Responding to the publication of the Dublin diocesan report, Vatic... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:17 -0500 THE COMMISSION that compiled the Dublin diocesan report met significant delays in getting records from the Health Service Executive which it required to conduct its investigations, the report sa... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:15 -0500 THREE CANON law advisers were relied on by Cardinal Desmond Connell: former chancellors the late Msgr Gerard Sheehy and Msgr Alex Stenson, and the current chancellor Msgr John Dolan, the report ... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:14 -0500 THE BISHOP of Limerick, Donal Murray, last night expressed his “deepest regret” over the abuse of children perpetrated in the Archdiocese of Dublin, but insisted he does not intend t... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:12 -0500"The sexual abuse of a child is and always was a crime in civil law. It is and always was a crime in canon law. It is and always was grievously sinful," said Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin yeste... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:11 -0500 , which deals with clerical sex abuse.It also asked for information on reports of clerical child sexual abuse conveyed to it by the Dublin archdiocese.There was no reply.Instead, the Vatican con... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:10 -0500 MANY OF the auxiliary bishops of Dublin were aware of complaints of child sexual abuse, but assignments of priests to parishes were "often made without any reference to child sexual abuse issues... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:09 -0500 ARCHBISHOP KEVIN McNamara was one of four archbishops who handled child sex abuse complaints "badly". He did not report his knowledge of abuse to gardaí during his 1985-1987 tenure.In fact ... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:07 -0500 ARCHBISHOP JOHN Charles McQuaid's failure to punish serial child sex abuser Fr Edmondus in the early 1960s was a disaster that "established a pattern of not holding abusers accountable" for deca... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:01 -0500 CARDINAL DESMOND Connell has been criticised for being slow to act in recognising the seriousness of child sex abuse in Dublin while he was archbishop.The commission of investigation into Dublin... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:00 -0500 The priest, whose name was deleted from the report at its final editing stage, served in the Pro-Cathedral during the 1970s.The first formal complaint against him came from a former altar boy. I... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:28:00 -0500 TWENTY-FIVE years after she first reported being sexually abused as a 12-year-old girl, Marie Collins finally feels vindicated.“It’s the end of a very long fight and a very hard road... Irish Times Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:27:58 -0500Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell combined to blaze a brilliant 14-under-par 58 in the opening round fourballs at the Omega Mission Hills World Cup as Ireland opened up a commanding three shot lead ove... Ananova Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:52:40 -0500A seemingly unending wave of sex scandals, many of them involving children, has decimated the once-proud standing of the Catholic church in Ireland and rendered its power a pale shadow of what it wa... The Independent Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:10:52 -0500A seemingly unending wave of sex scandals, many of them involving children, has decimated the once-proud standing of the Catholic church in Ireland and rendered its power a pale shadow of what it wa... The Independent Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:10:47 -0500DUBLIN — Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland̵... Japan Today Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:33:40 -0500November 26, 2009 An independent commission in Ireland reported Thursday that Roman Catholic bishops in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse by priests to protect the church's reputation. On Wedne... NPR Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:20:49 -0500The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland said today that he was shocked and ashamed by details in the Dublin Archdiocese clerical abuse report published today.Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Arma... Irish Examiner Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:10:57 -0500Families members of two of the five young people who died in one of the worst car accidents in the history of the State have today settled their High Court action for more than €400,000. The actions... Irish Examiner Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:10:55 -0500The British and Irish governments were today told they must "step up to the plate" to prevent a crisis in the North's power-sharing government.Sinn Féin's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said... Breaking News.ie Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:10:55 -0500The two Ulstermen fired a better-ball 58 to take a three-shot lead after the first-round Thursday, the perfect way for McIlroy to show he was over the disappointment of narrowly losing the race to be ... International Herald Tribune Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:57:49 -0500Nov 26 2009 Book chain Borders has gone into administration, insolvency and restructuring firm MCR has confirmed. Borders, which has around 45 Borders and Books Etc stores across the UK, lodged a ... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:12:08 -0500DUBLIN: Ireland's Catholic Church apologised and admitted its shame on Thursday after a damning new report showed it covered up child sex abuse over more than three decades. The Irish government also ... Channel News Asia Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:05:02 -0500It has emerged this evening that 160 jobs are to go at a call centre in Sligo.The Tiscali contact centre-in the Finisklin Business Centre is to close its doors in six months timeThe company is part of... Irish Examiner Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:04:22 -0500A young Dublin man will be sentenced at a later date for viciously assaulting an ex-girlfriend in his car after a night's drinking. Paul McMenamy (aged 24) of Donomore Green, Tallaght had previously l... Breaking News.ie Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:04:22 -0500President Mary McAleese has said she is dismayed at the cover-up of clerical abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese, as revealed in today's Murphy report.“This failure to prioritise the protection and welf... Breaking News.ie Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:04:21 -0500Two Balbriggan cousins who launched a violent attack on their uncle and his partner in front of the couple’s young children have been sentenced to three years in jail, with 18 months suspended. Phil... Breaking News.ie Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:04:20 -0500Nov 26 2009 Former Sex Pistols star John Lydon has praised Jedward - for being so bad they made other acts "shine". The punk idol said the pair - dumped from The X Factor at the weekend - were "ju... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:38 -0500Nov 26 2009 A student who pleaded guilty to outraging public decency after he was photographed urinating over a war memorial has avoided a jail sentence. Philip Laing had been warned he could face... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:37 -0500Nov 26 2009 Tony Blair and George Bush may have agreed the need for regime change in Iraq in private discussions at the US president's ranch, the Iraq Inquiry has heard. Sir Christopher Meyer, who... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:36 -0500Nov 26 2009 More than 300 people were evacuated from their homes as a fire ripped through a building site and spread to nearby flats. The ferocious blaze began on a construction site in Peckham, s... Loughborough Echo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:34 -0500See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactiv... Finfacts Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:41:00 -0500An abuse-victims support group is calling for a criminal investigation into all those who "colluded and conspired to protect the Catholic Church" from sex-abuse allegations in the Dublin Archdiocese.O... Breaking News.ie Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:36:49 -0500END: Module - M63 - Article Related Attachements --> Condescendingly, commentators tend to assume that the people going overdrawn do so because they’re impoverished. But why should this be true... Times Online Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:10:36 -0500The North's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, has warned against any further delay in the transfer of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont. Speaking after talks with Gordo... RTE News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:23 -0500A 36-year-old man is being questioned by gardai investigating the robbery of a cash-in-transit van in Cabra in Dublin. It happened at the post office on Ashtown Grove yesterday morning. They fired a... RTE News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:22 -0500Jacob Fruitfield Foods has sent solicitors' letters to a number of retailers who have sourced products outside the Irish market. A competitor of Jacob's owns the trade mark to sell and distribute bis... RTE Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:21 -0500 | 
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