1.   A report into sex abuse at a school for emotionally disturbed children is being sent to every county council in the country.

2.   The headmaster of a school at the centre of allegations into sex abuse is to take early retirement on medical grounds.

3.   A GARDA investigation was underway today into an allegation of child sex abuse involving a former religious principal in a secondary school in the west of Ireland.

4.   The Catholic Press Office said that new guidelines on child sex abuse involving religious orders would be available to bishops before the end of the year.

5.   He said there was too much attention paid to child sex abuse and teenage delinquency, when the problem had to be dealt with much earlier on.

6.   THE MOTHER of seven Orkney children whose allegations of sex abuse led to nine others being taken into care, has called for an inquiry into their case.

7.   Would it still be considered child sex abuse?

8.   All three were charged with rape, sodomy, sex abuse and robbery.

9.   American cardinals meet with Vatican officials to try to work out national guidelines against sex abuse by priests.

10.   And Ian Dale, on probation for sex abuse and assault, then arrested for a fight at a Taco Bell.