The fight goes on: Fr Sean Healy may be retiring, but his passion is not

Though retiring from Social Justice Ireland, Fr Sean Healy won’t be putting his feet up. He tells Mick Clifford that though the ‘social contract has been broken’ in Ireland, it is fixable

Cork-born Fr Sean Healy co-founded Social Justice Ireland with St Brigid Reynolds. Picture: Moya Nolan

Sean Healy is hanging up his boots. After 50 years striving to make the world cop on to the imperative of societal equality, he is stepping away.

Now 77, the Society of African Missions priest, along with his confederate, Sr Brigid Reynolds, is retiring from the organisation they founded: Social Justice Ireland.