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A Different View with Dave O’Connell The shy child was now a woman with a voice that she demands will be heard for the rest of her days, but her photograph in the papers last week brought me right back to the place I’d first met her – and it was in the ashes of […]
LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- During his seven years as auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, Bishop David G. O'Connell made many friends -- and a strong impression -- among his brother bishops. The native of County Cork, Ireland, was one of three priests named auxiliary bishops for Los Angeles by Pope Francis in July 2015. The pope was known to refer privately to the future bishops -- then-Father O'Connell, then-Father Robert E. Barron, a Chicago-born media evangelist, and then-Msgr. Joseph V. Brennan,
A colourful, charitable Galway barman plans to write himself into the Guinness Book of World Records – by visiting and consuming a beverage in 85 local bars in 24 hours! The mammoth pub crawl, on the weekend of March 31 and April 1, will bring Damien Reilly on a tour of Galway’s watering holes. Starting […]
Patients were packed like sardines into two Emergency Departments of Galway’s public hospitals this week as the number of people waiting on trolleys soared past 750 so far for February. Management and nurses both issued warnings in separate statements as University Hospital Galway treated 62 patients on trolleys on Tuesday while waiting for beds to […]
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I’ts definitely twenty years ago since the eldest son – now well into his twenties – was celebrating a birthday with a party for all of his little friends and cousins. We were living in Dublin at the time and what appeared to be half the city was packed […]