A scholar, bishop and champion of peace

CARDINAL Cahal B Daly was born in Loughguile, in the Glens of Antrim, on October 1 1917. He was educated at St Patrick’s National School in Loughguile, and then as a boarder in St Malachy’s College, Belfast, in 1930.

The third of seven children, his father, from Roscommon, was a primary school teacher.

Following his studies at St Malachy’s, he went on to Queen’s University and in June 1941 was ordained into the priesthood at Maynooth College.