Cathedral plan ‘should be submitted to Holy See’

TWO experts in Catholic law yesterday said the final decision on controversial plans to alter the interior of St Coleman’s Cathedral should be made by the Holy See in Rome.

They made their opinions known on the second day of a Bord Pleanála oral hearing examining proposals to alter part of the interior of the cathedral in Cobh.

Dr Alcuin Reid, a London-based liturgical expert, told Bord Pleanála inspector Tom Rabbette the reordering shouldn’t be allowed.