'Warm fire of hospitality' can't be replaced by 'raging fires of division', says bishop

 The Bishop of Limerick, Brendan Leahy, said that there are a few who take advantage of 'bona fide concerns' about a reduction in services to stoke the 'fires of division'. Picture: Kieran Clancy

The Bishop of Limerick has said that Ireland is now “far from a place of a thousand welcomes”, and has accused some people of stoking division and distrust of migrants.

In his homily for St Patrick’s Day, Bishop Brendan Leahy said Ireland cannot be allowed to become a place where the "warm fire of hospitality is being replaced by raging fires of division, distrust, and disdain, stoked by a few".