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In "Bishop stays in Rome to await Vatican verdict" (News, Irish edition) we said: "The bishop [Donal Murray] has come under increasing pressure to step down after the Murphy report criticised his handling of complaints against priests who were later found to have sexually abused children in greater Dublin. That pressure intensified just before Murray flew to Rome, when Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly said he was confident that the bishop 'would do the right thing'."

But that quote was incorrectly attributed to Cardinal Daly; they were the words of Cardinal Sean Brady. Cardinal Daly retired as Archbishop of Armagh in 1996 and has made no public statements of any kind since then and no public statement about Bishop Murray. We apologise for the error.

"Anti-gay laws signal new era of intolerance across Africa" (World) reported that "Iran and Jamaica have seen homosexuals imprisoned and attacked and many American states have laws against sodomy" but the phrase "on their statute books" was edited out. The US Supreme Court in Lawrence et al v Texas (2003) ruled as unconstitutional all anti-homosexual sodomy laws, except those governing the armed forces.

"Move over, Moor coming through" (Review) listed Vasily Petrenko as the conductor of the Royal Opera House's production of Der Rosenkavalier. We meant his compatriot, Kirill Petrenko.

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