Stand-off between bishop and priest ends

A BITTER stand-off between a local bishop and a priest who has locked himself in his parish home for the past 18 months has ended.

County Wexford priest Fr Jim Cashman had refused to move from the parish of St Leonards in Ballycullane, near New Ross, and had asked the Pope and Rome to intervene in his case.

During the year-and-a-half-long wrangle, a priest appointed in his place was forced to rent a house ten miles away from the local Church.