‘New Irish will bolster our faith’

THE strong religious faith of the “new Irish” will help strengthen our own faith, the Bishop of Cork and Ross said yesterday.

Most Reverend Dr John Buckley made his comments from the altar as dozens of immigrants from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Asia and Africa — many for the first time — took part in the city’s 81st annual Corpus Christi procession from the North Cathedral.

He also prayed for Fr Ganni, an Iraqi priest who worked at Lough Derg for two years, and who was murdered in Iraq last Sunday, alongside three deacons, after celebrating Mass.