MONDAY

Will he, as Cardinal Sean Brady expects, "do the right thing"? Bishop Donal Murray is in Rome to discuss with senior Vatican officials his "inexcusable" omissions in his handling of an investigation into paedophile priest Thomas Naughton. His resignation is said to be imminent, but the rest of us are resigned to the Catholic church's continual inability to recognise what "doing the right thing" really means... Meanwhile, Holly Sampson ("I'm not a home-wrecker") is the latest Tiger Babe to come out as a "transgressor". The star of Diary of a Horny Housewife joins Kalika Moquin, along with Rachel Uchitel, (who denies a dangerous liaison) Jaimee Grubbs, Mindy Lawton, Cori Rist, and Jamie Jungers ("He broke my heart") as women reported to have had affairs with the billionaire golfer. Ominously, the network television stations in the US did not play a single advertisement featuring Tiger over the weekend... The Garda Representative Association says it's prepared to ignore the law banning our police force from involvement in industrial disputes and illegally ballot members on whether they'll take action against possible pay cuts. Justice minister Dermot Ahern lays down the law and warns of considerable consequences if the members of the force cross the thin blue line. Moral authority is not a commodity we're over-endowed with these days.

TUESDAY

It's 2.35am Florida time and for the second time in a fortnight emergency services get a 911 call from Tiger Woods' mansion – this time the ambulance is called for mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, who is rushed to hospital with acute stomach pain. Meanwhile, rumours abound that Tiger was actually admitted to hospital after that hair-raising encounter with a fire hydrant allegedly suffering from a drink and prescription drug overdose. And minus a tooth... The warm-up act that is the Copenhagen UN climate change summit hears that the last decade is the hottest since records collected by the World Metereological Organisation began in 1850, up by more than 0.7ºC. The summit wants to ensure that temperatures rise no more than 2ºC above pre-industrial average – but many low-lying islands (and we now know why) want an increase of no more than 1.5ºC

WEDNESDAY

"We are now on the road to economic recovery," says finance minister Brian Lenihan as the harshest budget in history is delivered with a triple whammy of cuts in public-sector pay, cuts in social welfare and child benefit and cuts in the services we get for our taxes. A search party has been sent out for our stimulus package but it seems to have disappeared into the mists of early 2011, if not hijacked by Nama and the banks looking for recapitalisation. Another 72,000 people stress out because they know that their jobs will be gone within a year.

THURSDAY

War and peace as President Obama goes to Oslo and is presented with the Nobel peace prize, acknowledging the contradiction that a president leading his country in two wars should be standing in the footsteps of Ghandi, King and Mandela. Rather than evade this awkward conundrum, Obama confronts the dilemmas and talks of his own understanding of just war: "Some will kill," he says of the soldiers he has just sent to Afghanistan, "some will be killed." The audience shuffles awkwardly at the stark reality of war expounded by their peace laureate. "I understand why war is not popular but I also know this: the belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it." Nerves are steadied by the US president's soaring conclusion: "Let us reach for the world that ought to be, that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls." Michelle's dress is lovely, but shame about that severe hairstyle… Awkward conundrums of our own are again before the courts. The Supreme Court, in the absence of legislation on assisted reproduction, decides that the father of a child conceived after he donated sperm to a lesbian couple can have access to his son, but not guardianship. And again in the absence of legislation, three women go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to argue that no law on abortion in this country is bad law and harms their health.

FRIDAY

Light relief in the Dáil as Green party TD Paul Gogarty disgraces himself with a "F*** you deputy Stagg. F*** you" aimed at Labour party TD Emmet Stagg, who is critical of his approach to the budget. Gogarty is trying unsuccessfully to talk out of both sides of his mouth, but unfortunately he can't demonstrate his left-ist credentials while at the same time voting for social-welfare cuts. Gogarty ends up, as former defence minister Paddy Donegan euphemistically once said of president Cearbhaill O Dálaigh, "a thundering disgrace", not for the unparliamentary language he used but because he's an unalloyed hypocrite... Cue the pope's response to the Murphy report into paedophile priests in Dublin. The One in Four survivors' support group reckons his sharing of our "outrage, betrayal and shame" is disingenuous and dishonest.

You cannot be serious

"Traffiking (sic) is a big issue here. I'm doing what I can"

Tweet from actress Lindsay Lohan, inexplicably sent to India by the BBC to front a documentary on the human trafficking of women and children