Diplomat presents credentials to pope

VATICAN CITY
The Irish Times

PADDY AGNEW in Rome

NEW AMBASSADOR: THE DEVELOPMENTS in Cardinal Brady’s situation came on a historic day for Vatican-Irish relations yesterday.

The secretary general of the Department of Foreign Affairs, David Cooney, presented his diplomatic credentials to Pope Benedict as Ireland’s new, non-resident Ambassador to the Holy See.

The Holy See likes to make a point about the status of “non-resident” ambassadors by signing them on just twice a year, and in a job lot.

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