The death has been announced of the popular Mourneabbey-born Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster Diocese in the UK, Bishop Pádraig O Donoghue, who passed away last Sunday morning.
In a message posted on the Diocese of Westminster website on Monday Vicar General Mgr Martin Hayes wrote with the sad news that Bishop O Donoghue, formerly a priest and Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese had died. He was very much in our prayers since the notice circulated yesterday. He died peacefully at home in Nazareth House, Mallow in Co Cork where he had been living since 2013, close to family and friends and being cared for by the Sisters and staff there, wrote Mgr Hayes.