Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

Praxiteles,
Are you sure about the Great Professor O’Neill’s admission? If so isn’t it extraordinary that someone who is neither a conservationist (by his own admission), nor a church architect (3 churches isn’t much of a portfolio) and who has never worked on a cathedral (credit to the sharp SC for spotting that one) should have been let loose on what the Irish Independent calls one of the world’s greatest Neo-Gothic structures?
What were the powers that be in the diocese of Cloyne playing at?
By the way, the planning hearing has been picked up on an American blogspot (scroll down to the section on news from Ireland):
http://www.whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/