Bishops mark International Human Rights Day with a call to redouble efforts to prevent more deaths of homeless people on our streets.

In the event of marriage being redefined as a consequence of a Yes vote in the referendum, the bishops may instruct priests not to act as civil registrars for marriages.

In Cork, some families are living in cars, others are broken up, with mothers and children under 12 going to one centre, fathers to another, and teenage boys to emergency foster care, reports Focus Ireland Cork.

Europe has 11 million empty homes - enough to house all of the Continent's homeless twice.

Reference to blasphemy “largely obsolete" according to Irish Council of Churches.