New bishop cooking up a storm

The new Bishop of Limerick, Fr Brendan Leahy, who will be ordained at St John’s Cathedral next Sunday, plans to follow in the footsteps of Pope Francis... in the kitchen.

Like the pontiff, he loves to cook his own meals and does a “mean” pasta. When he’s settled into his “non-palatial” home on the outskirts of the city, he plans to do a big cook-up as a house warming for neighbours.

Fr Leahy said yesterday that his late mother taught her children how to fend for themselves in the kitchen.