Their association with other prisoners and phone calls to relatives are also being restricted. The dispute could add to the tensions already surrounding the Ulster peace process.Kelly, 42, from Ballybrittas, County Laois, in the Irish Republic, was jailed for 25 years in 1993. The bishop is expected to travel to Rome next month where he will appear before Cardinal Bernadin Gantin, who as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops is one of the Vatican's most senior officials.Bishop Comiskey said at the weekend he would happily defend his views in Rome. The Vatican is understood to be demanding that the bishop retracts and give an undertaking never to speak openly on the subject in future.It is also expected to try to impose a wider gag on Bishop Comiskey forcing him agree never to speak out on issues embarrassing to Church authorities. ALAN MURDOCH Dublin The Vatican has moved to quash a direct challenge to its rule of priestly celibacy by insisting that a senior Irish bishop recants his dissident views and agree to silence on the issue in future.The dispute is unprecedented in recent years in that a disagreement between senior figures in the Catholic Church is being conducted so openly.The Bishop of Ferns, Brendan Comiskey, has been summoned to Rome after calling on the Church to re-examine its traditional opposition to priests marrying. The couple say they were told nothing about his past life which might have helped prepare them for what was to come, or put them off the idea of adoptioing him altogether.Solihull council, which first took the child into care, and Bar-nardo's say they cannot comment in detail on individual cases, but deny there was any failure to disclose information.. The husband was over 30, making him too old for most adoption agencies, but they found there was still a chance if they were prepared to consider a handicapped or older child.In 1986, they were offered a boy aged six He came for a day, and never went away Within five months he was legally their child. They allege that based on internal documents and reports they have been shown since, it was known and recorded that the child had been abused, and they were never told.They are claiming for the material and emotional cost of the years they spent with the boy, although they insist their main concern is to bring their experiences to the attention of other couples and social services departments.Married in the mid-1970s, the childless couple turned to adoption when fertility treatment failed.

They say their five years of ignorance meant he was denied the correct treatment which might have helped him.The couple, whose name and circumstances cannot be published because the identity of the child has to be protected, have been granted legal aid for their case. The parents argue that if they had known the boy's history, they would not have adopted him. Many other cases alleging negligence had been held up pending the judgment. In the new case, which has been transferred to the High Court in London because of its importance, the family are suing not for negligence but for deceit. They say they were deliberately misled about the boy they were adopting.The family are seeking damages from Solihull council in the West Midlands and Barnardo's, which acted as the adoption agency.

They are also seeking, in a second action, to become the first couple in Britain to have an adoption revoked, so the boy is no longer legally their son.The couple's solicitors, Tyndalwood and Millichip of Birmingham, confirmed that the action for deceit was proceeding, but declined to give any further details because they have given an undertaking to the court that they and the family will not speak to the media.The boy, now 14, is back in council care and seems unlikely to be able to lead an independent life. They clarified the law by saying that local authorities cannot be held to be negligent for the conduct of social workers. The Lords gave the final ruling on several test cases which had been progressing through the courts for years. Councils who believed they had been left immune from legal action against their social workers after a landmark House of Lords judgment last month face a new test case from a family who adopted an abused child. "We don't think it would be difficult to do pictures of the M25," one team member said. "We'd just have the same picture of a traffic jam and stick that there.". You have to wait for when the radio station chooses to tell you."Although commercial systems offer live traffic information, they are most useful to drivers on the road.