Irish police have upgraded the missing person case of Kildare native Deirdre Jacob to a murder investigation as sources are naming convicted rapist Larry Murphy as a prime suspect.
A bell will ring slowly 32 times on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 in Omagh where the worst terrorist attack in the Northern Ireland troubles happened exactly 20 years ago.
With victims numbering in the 1000s, shocking stories of the cover-up of abuse within the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania emerged in a grand jury report, including the case of one priest who is said to have abused five sisters in the same family.
The Old Jail Museum of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, where seven Irish coal miners with the Molly Maguires were hanged, is for sale by its owners of 23 years, Betty Lou and Thomas McBride.
An Irish teacher who was found to have forced five schoolgirls to tape their mouths shut for giggling and chatting in class has been removed from the national register of teachers in Ireland.
If Pope Francis fails to engage with Ireland's survivors of abuse and gay couples who feel excluded from the Church he will be letting down an already hugely wounded Catholic Ireland.
