IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Michael Brennan Deputy Political Editor
Tuesday January 31 2012
FINE Gael backbenchers are increasing the pressure on Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore to reverse his decision to shut Ireland’s Vatican embassy.
It comes as the Pope’s new representative to Ireland, Papal Nuncio Archbishop Charles J Brown, is due to arrive in Dublin today.
Archbishop Brown is filling the position left vacant after the previous Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, was recalled to Rome last summer in response to Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s criticism of the Vatican’s approach in dealing with clerical sexual abuse.
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