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Fr William Carrigan
Fr William (Billy) Carrigan was born on 18th July 1933 at Conahy, Co Kilkenny. He was educated at Clinstown NS and St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny. He came to St Columban’s, Dalgan Park, Navan in September 1951. He was ordained priest on 22nd December 1957. In 1958...
Fr Joseph Houston
Fr Joseph (‘Joe’) Houston was born on 14 December 1940 in Belfast. He was educated at St Gall’s Primary School and St Malachy’s College, Belfast. He did a degree in Arts at Queen’s University, Belfast and followed that with a MA in Celtic Studies. He taught Gaelic...
Fr Patrick (Paddy) Clarke
Patrick (‘Paddy’) Clarke was born in Dublin on 22nd March 1931. He was educated at Synge Street CBS and Belvedere College and came to Dalgan in 1948. He was ordained priest on 21st December 1954. In 1955, Paddy was appointed to post-graduate studies in Sociology at...
Fr Noel Doyle
Noel M. Doyle was born in Mullingar on 24 September 1935. He was educated in Ballinea NS, and at the Christian Brothers’ School in Mullingar. He came to Dalgan in September 1953 and was ordained a priest on 21st December 1959. Assigned to Japan in 1960, once his...
Fr Owen Doyle
Owen Doyle was born on 29th June 1934 at Moylough, Co Galway. He was educated at Moylough NS and Garbally Park College, Ballinasloe. He entered Dalgan on September 1952 and was ordained priest on 21st December 1958. The following year he was appointed to further...
Fr Daniel O’Gorman
Fr Daniel O’Gorman was born on the 4th March 1932 in Tullaherin, Bennetsbridge, Co Kilkenny. His received his early education in Bennetsbridge NS and St Kieran’s, Kilkenny. He joined the Columbans in Navan in 1950 and was ordained there on 21 December 1956. Korea...
Fr Aodh Eamonn O’Halpin
Aodh was born in Dundalk on 31st January 1934. He was educated at Presentation Brothers, Letterkenny, St Columban’s NS, Letterkenny, and St Eunan’s College, Letterkenny. He came to St Columban’s, Dalgan Park, Navan in September 1952 and was ordained priest on 21st...
Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher
Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher was born on 21 January 1943 in Donaghedy, Co Tyrone and was educated in Loughash PS and St Columb’s, Derry. He joined the Columbans in Dalgan Park, Navan in 1960 and was ordained there on 21 December 1966. Paddy then did postgraduate...
Fr Richard O’Sullivan
Fr Richard (Dick) O’Sullivan was born at Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry on 17 February 1936. He was educated at Kilgarvan Boys School and at St Brendan’s College, Killarney, Co Kerry. He came to Dalgan in September 1953 and was ordained priest on 21 December 1959. He was...
Fr Seamus Egan
Seamus Egan was born in Ballybrehony, Claremorris on 2 February 1943. Educated at Ballybrehony NS and St Colman’s College, Claremorris, he came to St Columban’s, Navan in September 1960. He was ordained priest on 21st December 1966. In 1967 he was appointed to...
Fr Sean Brazil
Fr Sean Brazil was born in Dublin on 14 January 1932. He attended the Christian Brothers in Synge Street, Dublin before joining the Columbans in Dalgan in 1948. Ordained there in December 1954, he went to Korea in 1955. Sean was a man who liked a challenge and was...
Fr Gerard Bellew
Fr Gerard Bellew was born in Dundalk on the 15th March 1938. He was educated in the CBS primary and secondary schools in Dundalk before joining the Columbans in Navan in 1955. He was ordained on 20th December 1961. His first appointment was to post graduate studies...
Fr Francis Carr
Fr Frank Carr was born in Athenry, Co Galway on 30th April 1935. He was educated in Newcastle NS and St Mary’s College, Galway before joining the Columbans in Navan in 1953. He was part of our student exchange programme and studied theology for three years in...
Fr Paul Kenny
Fr Paul Kenny was born in Coolmeen, Co Clare on 29th June 1930. He was educated at Coolmeen NS and St Flannan’s College, Ennis before coming to Dalgan in 1948 where he was ordained priest on 21st December 1954. He finished an MA in Anthropology in Fordham, NY...
Fr Martin Murphy
Fr Martin Murphy was born on 14th April 1929 at Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. He was educated at Glenbrien NS, CBS Enniscorthy, and St Peter’s College, Wexford. He came to Dalgan in September 1948 and was ordained priest on 21 December 1954. Appointed to the Philippines...
Fr Anthony Mortell
Fr Anthony (‘Tony’) Mortell was born in Mallow, Co Cork on 28th August 1935. He was educated at the Patrician Brothers, Mallow before coming to Dalgan in 1954 where he was ordained priest on 21st December 1960. Appointed to Korea in 1961, he was assigned to Kwangju...
Fr Terence Bennett
Fr Terence (“Terry”) Bennett was born in Omagh, Co Tyrone on 15th December 1926. He was educated at Loreto Convent PES, and CBS Omagh. He came to Dalgan in 1944 and was ordained priest on 21st December 1950. Appointed to the Philippines, he was among the pioneer...
Fr James Francis Gavigan
James ('Jimmy') Gavigan was born in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal on 9 April 1927. He was educated at the Convent of Mercy and De la Salle Brothers Schools, and at St Eunan’s College, Letterkenny. He came to St Columban’s, Navan in September 1944 and was ordained priest...
Fr Peadar O’Loughlin
Peadar was born on 1 March 1944 in Loughville, Ennis. He received his early education in the Convent of Mercy and Christian Brothers in Ennis. When he finished school he worked for several years as Office Manager with McInerney Housing Ltd before joining the...
Fr Seamus O’Connor
Seamus O’Connor was born in Tullamore on the 25 February1926. He was educated in St Brigid’s NS and St Finian’s, Mullingar and joined the Columbans in Navan in 1944. He was ordained on 21 December 1950 and was part of the first Columban group assigned to Fiji. He...
