Bishop Router’s ordination took place in St Matthew’s Church, Maghera, Virginia, Co.
Cavan on Sunday, June 25, 1989. The ordaining bishop was Bishop Francis Mc Kiernan,
then Bishop of Kilmore. Bishop Router is pictured here with Bishop Mc Kiernan, deacon
Rev. Conor Maguire, his father Tony and mother Nora, and his sisters Martina Keville (left) and Breda Murphy (right). Photo: Courtesy Bishop Router. It was Palm Sunday, 2019 and the words from Luke’s Gospel were echoing in the heart of the Cavan priest. “Into your hands, O Lord…” The following day he would celebrate requiem Mass for a relative – before heading to Dublin to meet the Papal Nuncio. In his forty years as a priest in Kilmore…
Martina Purdy