‘First a man of prayer, a man of God’

THE late Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Cahal Daly, will be laid to rest at noon tomorrow after his remains were yesterday received at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh.

Cardinal Daly, who died in Belfast City Hospital on New Year’s Eve following heart problems, was hailed during a Mass at St Patrick’s yesterday as “a man of prayer, a man of God”.

The Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh, the Most Reverend Gerard Clifford, used his homily at yesterday’s Mass to pay tribute to Cardinal Daly’s influence in various areas across Church and society, and the impact revelations of clerical child sex abuse had on him.