The death has taken place of Fr Pat Murphy C.S.S.p. He was 85.
Born in Coachford, Co. Cork, Fr Pat was ordained in 1960 and appointed to the Collège du St Esprit in Mauritius, where he taught for 15 years before moving to pastoral ministry and over three decades as a parish priest.
He returned to Ireland in 2013, the last Irish-born Spiritan to serve in Mauritius. He died on July 17 in Kimmage Manor where he had spent his final years, and was laid to rest in his native Coachford on July 20.