Fr Joe Brennan SJ and Fr Kennedy O'Brien of Gonzaga College passed away on the same day Jesuits’ deaths ‘shock’ to Dublin school
One of Dublin’s most prestigious schools has expressed its “deep shock” after the deaths of two long-serving staff members on the same day.
Staff and students at Gonzaga College were informed on Monday of the deaths of Fr Joe Brennan SJ and Fr Kennedy O’Brien.
“As you can imagine, the college community is in deep shock at the loss of these men who gave their lives in service of Gonzaga College and its students,” the school said, describing the Jesuits as “irreplaceable”.
The 61-year-old Fr O’Brien was the school’s last remaining Jesuit serving as a full-time teacher
PR industry honours bishops’ spokesman
The chief spokesman for the Irish hierarchy has been awarded a fellowship of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) by the institute’s national council.
Martin Long became Director of the Catholic Communications Office (CCO) of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference since 2003, after working as an associate director with Bill O’Herlihy Communications and as public relations manager with the Irish Insurance Federation, where he devised the industry’s award winning anti-fraud awareness campaign.
Fellows of the PRII are recognised leaders in the public relations and communications profession, deemed to “have made a notable contribution to the development of the profession”.