A Different View with Dave O’Connell

There was a time when most towns, village and parishes in Ireland had one of their own on the missions – a priest or nun who returned every couple of years to great fanfare and funding, before they headed off to some place their old friends had never even heard of.

They were quite rightly lauded for their sacrifice and unerring commitment to helping improve the lives of those less fortunate – but as to what they actually did, nobody was quite sure and they didn’t spend much time deliberating on it anyway.

When the missionary........

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