Diocese that spans four counties loses half of clergy to cocooning amid Covid-19 pandemic

File photo of Bishop Willie Walsh.

Around half of the clergy in a Catholic diocese spanning four counties are cocooning as a result of new Government restrictions aimed at combating the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fr Brendan Quinlivan said today 34 of the 70 priests in the Diocese of Killaloe are over the age of 70 and and are cocooning in line with new Government measures aimed to minimising the spread of the Coronavirus.