Wanted: an elderly white male 

ANYONE really "shocked" to hear that Pope Benedict had stepped down needs to get a life. Surprised, perhaps. But "shocked"? The word was flung about last week as if Catholics could not get out of bed because of it all.

Colum Kenny: Might of Rome descends on an unlikely heretic priest 

Tony Flannery is an unlikely heretic. An Irish Redemptorist priest, he is now being threatened with excommunication from his own church.

Colum Kenny: Bishops are using hyperbole to obscure clear choices 

Colum Kenny

Such absolutist language on abortion has unnerved an already indecisive Government, writes Colum Kenny

Colum Kenny: What about the right to life of our homeless citizens? 

Colum Kenny

At least four people have died from exposure on our streets so far this winter in the Republic of Ireland.

Colum Kenny : Pizza prank defies political reason 

Colum Kenny

'I don't rat on people," says Deputy Tom Hayes of Fine Gael. He was refusing to identify the four people whom he says were with him when a bizarre practical joke was played on another TD on the eve of the latest austerity Budget.