Seán Kinsella in the hearse carrying his remains at the funeral of restauranteur Sean Kinsella at St Anne’s Church, Shankill, Co Dublin, yesterday. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins

Mass celebrant says chef was ‘an extraordinarily creative person, charismatic in many ways’

The  law firm that represented 92 of those affected said the settlement would still allow abuse survivors to continue legal actions. Photograph: Getty Images

Over 400 people to be compensated with financial settlement of $16.5m

Parallels with JFK presidential election campaign

File photograph of Ian Elliott (left) outgoing chief executive of the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church with board chairman John Morgan in 2010. Photograph Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

Great majority of abuse allegations against priests historic

Kerry teenager Donal Walsh, who died last night after a battle with cancer. He was known for campaigning against suicide among young people. Photograph: Domnick Walsh/Eye Focus

Donal Walsh appealed to young people not to take their own lives

The High Court ruled last week that an 
86-year-old woman suffering from psychotic depression is to be given electric shock treatment despite the resistance of her family
and following a High Court decision last Friday
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Pre-existing views of patients on treatments likely to be taken into account

Bishop Christopher Jones and Fr Timothy Bartlett representing the Catholic Church at the  Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children last January. Bishop Jones described the 1992 Supreme Court judgment on the X case as “morally unacceptable”. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Would that the bishops always had as much passion for protecting children

Archdeacon Leslie Stevenson: was due to be consecrated Church of Ireland bishop of Meath and Kildare on Wednesday. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

Archdeacon Leslie Stevenson’s ‘positive concern’ for Church of Ireland prompts him to decline appointment

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