John Magee

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Then president Mary McAleese meets with Pope Benedict in the Vatican in 2005. Photograph: Osservatore Romano/Reuters
Vatican has never co-operated with Irish inquiries into clerical child sex abuse

Concordats were very much in the air when then president of Ireland Mary McAleese met then Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Angelo Sodano on Novemb(...)

The IRS case involved transfer pricing, which arises when different units of multinationals transact with each other
Amazon not liable for $1.5bn tax bill, judge rules

Amazon. com has won a tax dispute with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), involving more than $1.5 billion (€1.39 billion), in relation to the tra(...)

Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich: in Australia on “private visit” during pope’s trip. Photograph: PA Wire
Ó Fiaich ‘insinuated’ himself into pope’s entourage for Australia visit

The late Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich managed to “insinuate himself” into a visit by Pope John Paul II to Australia, even though he was not invited, a lett(...)

The Vatican found a canonical court was correct in its decision to uphold complaints against a former Cork priest. Photograph: Ettore Ferrari/EPA
Former Cork priest loses appeal against priesthood dismissal

A former priest in the Diocese of Cloyne has lost his appeal against dismissal from the priesthood after the Vatican found that a canonical court was (...)

Bishop William Crean said that the new reports showed that the Cloyne diocese had come a long way. Photograph: Catholic Communications Office /PA Wire
Church watchdog urges Cloyne to introduce whistleblower policy

A special policy to facilitate whistleblowers concerned about possible clerical child sexual abuse should be established by the Diocese of Cloyne as p(...)

Patrick, Charlotte, Elizabeth and Lynn Temple of Magee, at Salthill Gardens, Mountcharles, Co Donegal. Photograph: James Connolly/PicSell8
Tweedy types

M agee is the name and tweed is their game and they have been at it in Donegal for nearly 150 years, wool and weaving being part of the county’s DNA. (...)