Fr Anthony becomes Ireland’s newest priest

THE country’s newest priest imparted his first blessings to his family last night after an historic ordination.

Fr Anthony O’Mahony made history on Pentecost Sunday when he became the first priest to be ordained in St James’s Church in the parish of Ardfield and Rathbarry in West Cork, his native parish.

Bishop John Buckley performed the ordination during a mass concelebrated by parish administrator, Fr Patrick McCarthy.