A Bishop of the people

Bishop John Buckley couldn’t live in the Bishop’s Palace. He would feel cut off, he tells Claire O’Sullivan

BISHOP John Buckley doesn’t actually live at the Bishop’s Palace on Redemption Road in Cork’s northside.

The palace, officially the headquarters of the Cork and Ross diocese, is the equivalent of the ‘office’ to him. Instead, home is a modest house, tucked behind Christ King Church in Turner’s Cross, just a stone’s throw from Cork City’s soccer grounds and about six kilometres across the city on the southside.