Ex-priest marries near former parish

A priest who resigned eight months ago has married in a hotel not far from the church where he ministered.

Ian Gerard Kennedy and Maria Cunningham, a civil servant, married on Aug 22 in the Cromleach Lodge Hotel near Castlebaldwin, Co Sligo.

The wedding was so quiet that inquiries at the Marriage Registrar’s office in Sligo in the weeks before failed to obtain confirmation that it was happening.