IRELAND
Journal
EMMA MADIGAN HAS been announced as Ireland’s new ambassador to the Holy See.
Madigan will be the only staff member of the reopened Vatican Embassy after it was closed to save costs in 2011.
The Government announced in January that the embassy would be reopened with the Department of Foreign Affairs repeating today that the new Ambassador will have a particular mandate to ‘follow the activities of the Holy See on the development and human rights front’.
In a statement released this afternoon, the DFA referenced Pope Francis, saying that since his appointment he has “become a leading global advocate for action to address hunger and poverty and for the respect of human rights”
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