Only time will tell if Martin has taken a poisoned chalice

Martin has yet to be truly tested, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

THE journey from Lake Geneva to the Liffey threatened to be more of a haunting than a homecoming for Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who returned to Dublin last year to take up the post of assistant and successor-in-waiting to Cardinal Desmond Connell.

While born, bred and educated in the capital, Archbishop Martin served only briefly in his native city, or indeed his country, during the years of 1973-74 when he was curate at St Brigid's Parish in Cabinteely in south county Dublin.