IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Tue, May 6, 2014
Ireland’s new ambassador to the Holy See is Emma Madigan, who had been an assistant chief of protocol at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Her nomination was approved by the cabinet at its meeting today. She succeeds Noel Fahey who retired from the position in summer 2011.
On July 20th 2011, one week after publication of the Cloyne report on clerical child sex abuse in that Catholic diocese, Taoiseach Enda Kenny criticised the Vatican’s handling of the Irish church’s sex abuse crisis in the Dáil, saying: “Far from listening to evidence of humiliation and betrayal with St Benedict’s ‘ear of the heart’… the Vatican’s reaction was to parse and analyse it with the gimlet eye of a canon lawyer.”
On November 3rd 2011 Tánaiste and Minster for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore announced “with the greatest regret and reluctance” that the Government had decided to close Ireland’s embassy to the Holy See.
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