Credit: Getty Images The Diocese of Kerry has appealed to TDs in the county to urge the Government to relax a rule that would permit as few as 50 people to attend Mass from June 29.
When the Government announced the accelerated roadmap there was no mention of the limit. However, at the weekend Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that only 50 people would be permitted in a building – even if the church could comfortably hold 1,500 people. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin described the rule as “strange and disappointing”.
Shane O’Donoghue, the property administrator with the Diocese of Kerry, and part of the team behind the diocese’s guidelines regarding the resumption of public church services told Radio Kerry that he would be lobbying TDs for a change.