The new Bishop of Limerick, Fr Brendan Leahy, who will be ordained at St John’s Cathedral next Sunday, plans to follow in the footsteps of Pope Francis... in the kitchen.

“A clean pair of hands” is how the retired bishop of Derry, Dr Edward Daly, summed up Monsignor Eamon Martin, the future head of the Catholic Church in Ireland — a reference to the fact that the young prelate isn’t tainted by the abuse scandals and is a valued director of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland.