The Week that was

Monday

■ A YOUNG mother was among two killed in a horrific singlevehicle crash in Co Donegal in the early hours of the morning.

The woman Shiva Devine (below) and a man – both 20 – died when the car in which they were passengers crashed into a wall in Eastend, Bundoran, at 3.25am as it was being driven towards the Border with Co Fermanagh.

Tuesday

■ Pope Francis admitted the Catholic Church “showed no care for the little ones” and “abandoned” victims of clerical sexual abuse. The pontiff wrote a letter to all Catholics in which he condemned clerical sexual abuse and vowed no effort would be spared to prevent the cover-up of such abuse.

Wednesday

■ THE peak of the property market is in sight, as the pace of surging prices will ease off in the coming months, industry experts predict.

But affordability will remain a major problem as prices have now hit the very outer limits families can pay.

Thursday

■ ONE in three Irish families no longer fits into the traditional definition of the family used by the Catholic Church, Government research due to be published next month shows.

Reacting to the research, Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone said we live in a “society which has changed utterly”. Friday ■ Irish women now rank seventh in the world for the amount of alcohol they consume daily as the ‘wine o’clock’ culture takes a major toll on health.

A shocking new global report shows women in this country are downing three drinks a day on average, and are higher ranked in the global league table than Irish men.