Bishop Paul Connell of Ardagh and Clonmacnois greets people outside St Mel’s Cathedral
following his episcopal ordination.
A few years ago, literary critic Declan Kiberd wrote a masterful preface to an edition of Richard Power’s novel, The Hungry Grass. The novel’s hero, Fr Tom Conroy, is a somewhat angular priest, who does not fit easily into either the lives of his people or the structures of the Church he serves. Of Conroy’s…
