IRELAND
Inside Ireland
By Ciarán Hanna
The new Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Eamon Martin has said he is ‘humbled to be following in the footsteps of St Patrick’, on the day he took office following the resignation of Cardinal Seán Brady.
On 8th September, Pope Francis accepted Cardinal Brady’s resignation and 52-year-old Archbishop Eamon Martin became the 116th Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland in succession to Saint Patrick.
Cardinal Brady had let Catholic Church in Ireland for 18 years, but the last few years have been dominated by child sex abuse scandals in the Irish Catholic Church.
There were also claims that in 1975, the then Fr Brady covered up allegations of abuse by Fr Brendan Smyth.
On leaving Cardinal Brady thanked ‘the people, priests and religious of the Archdiocese of Armagh’ for their ‘welcome, friendship and so much kindness over many years’.
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