Tyrone football manager Mickey Harte will be among the speakers at a special Eucharistic Gathering in the Diocese of Ferns this weekend. CHILD protection measures need to be radically overhauled in ...

Like the rest of the world, Bishop of Ferns Ger Nash was looking on with great interest as live images from Rome were beamed across the world on Thursday evening. As white smoke billowed and Pope Leo ...

DUBLIN, Ireland-- The Diocese of Ferns is asking its parishes for additional funds to help cover the cost of legal settlements stemming from cases of clerical child abuse. The diocese paid more than ...

A FAMILY'S marathon legal fight with the Diocese of Ferns over the abuse of their daughter by a priest more than 15 years ago has finally ended. The controversial case centred on Fr Jim Grennan, a ...

Former Bishop of Ferns Brendan Comiskey, who resigned in April 2002 over failing to address allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the diocese, has died aged 89. The allegations resulted in an ...

The Bishop of Ferns, Most Rev Denis Brennan, has apologised again for clerical child sex abuse in the diocese. The abuse led to the 2005 report from the statutory Ferns inquiry, which found that ...

Former Bishop of Ferns Brendan Comiskey (89) was “in some ways a product of the Church culture of his time”, his funeral Mass heard. The bishop, who died at Louth County Hospital in Dundalk on Monday, ...

DUBLIN (AP) — A Roman Catholic diocese at the center of Ireland’s child-abuse scandals appealed Tuesday to its parishioners to cover some of its more than €10 million ($14 million) in bills to victims ...

The funeral has taken place of Bishop Brendan Comiskey, who resigned as leader of the Diocese of Ferns in April 2002 over his mishandling of clerical sexual abusers. Bishop Comiskey, who belonged to ...

Bishop Brendan Comiskey, who resigned following claims he failed to deal properly with child sexual abuse allegations in the diocese of Ferns, is to be laid to rest on Thursday. Bishop Comiskey, aged ...