Fr Tom Finnegan Much-loved Clogher priest dies
A priest described as a man who shared his Faith with passion, loved travel and had a kind and gentle manner, died following an illness he “bore with great courage and serenity”, the Diocese of Clogher said. Fr Tom Finnegan, the parish priest of Magheracloone in Monaghan, passed away in St Francis’ Hospice in Blanchardstown, Dublin.
At his funeral homily on Tuesday, chief celebrant and administrator of the diocese Msgr Joseph McGuinness said: “He was always willing to support diocesan events, and any priest needing help or support. He was a model of hospitality, his home being a place of welcome, nourishment and celebration.”
New online resource for CoI newspapers
All editions of the Church of Ireland’s weekly newspaper from when the paper began in March 1856 up to and including the end of the Revolutionary period in December 1923 are now available online.
In the run-up to marking 150 years since Disestablishment in 2019, the RCB Library is making more editions of the Church of Ireland Gazette freely available at https://esearch.informa.ie/rcb/.
Beginning this month historian Dr Miriam Moffitt will present a new series of online exhibits entitled: ‘The News Behind the News’.