*St Flannan’s College. AN BORD Pleanála has rejected a request by teachers and staff and the Board of Management at St Flannan’s College in Ennis for an oral hearing to be held into contentious plans for a €25m HSE community hospital to be built on Church-owned green space at the college.
*Bishop Fintan Monahan & St Flannan’s College principal, Fr Ignatius McCormack. Photograph: John O’Neill A ‘HOLY ROW’ over contentious plans for a new €25m community hospital on diocesan owned green space at St Flannan’s College in Ennis has taken a fresh twist.
*St Flannan’s staff objecting the plans. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL should be in no doubt that there is an overwhelming rejection by the entire school community at St Flannan’s College in Ennis to HSE plans for a €25m community hospital on the college’s green space.
*Tony Kelly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FORMER HURLER of the Year, Tony Kelly and two other All-Ireland senior hurling winners with Clare are opposing plans for a €25m HSE community hospital for a green field site at St Flannan’s College in Ennis.
*Bishop Fintan Monahan. Photograph: John O’Neill THE BISHOP of Killaloe, Fintan Monahan is remaining tight-lipped on the intervention of a school Board of Management in the ‘holy row’ over diocesan plans to sell off school green space for a €25m HSE community hospital.
Parishes across the Diocese of Killaloe have been reminded that no First Holy Communion or Confirmation ceremonies are to take place during the months of May and June.
A request for easing of restrictions to have a “meaningful” Holy Week has been made by the Catholic Church to the Irish Government.
Outbreaks of COVID-19 linked to funerals has prompted the Bishop of Killaloe to appeal to the public to offer their condolences in alternative ways.
An apology has been issued from the Bishop of Killaloe, Fintan Monahan following the Commission of the Mother and Baby Homes report.
BISHOP of Killaloe Fintan Monahan is well known for his use of social media in what can be described as the traditional realm of the Catholic Church.
