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CARDINAL Seán Brady has vowed to reflect on the views of child abuse victims, amid continuing calls for his resignation over allegations that he was involved in a cover-up of abuse by the notorious paedophile priest, Fr Brendan Smyth, 35 years ago.
BEING buried with loved ones in your local graveyard is something we have taken for granted for centuries.
PRESIDENT Barack O'bama received the traditional bowl of shamrock yesterday to mark St Patrick's Day, but if you thought the leader of the free world might add it to his garden patch, forget it.
MUCH of the world turned green yesterday for St Patrick's Day as Ireland pushed itself especially hard as a tourist destination amid the worst recession in memory.
CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel called the sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened".

THE PM Group has beaten off stiff competition to win €10 million in EU-funded consultancy projects in the Balkans.

THEY might not quite constitute a "new Republic", but Fine Gael's proposals for constitutional reform, to be launched by Enda Kenny today, deserve to be debated seriously.
Brendan O'Brien
ABOUT six weeks ago, the entire country was abuzz after hundreds of sightings of a meteor that whizzed across the evening sky.
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