Tributes paid to “celebrity” Limerick cleric who famously scored Irish World Cup team’s private audience with Pope

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TRIBUTES have been paid to a former “celebrity” Limerick chaplain to the Republic of Ireland soccer team, who famously secured a private audience between Pope John Paul II and the Irish soccer squad during their most successful World Cup in Italy in 1990. Retired Reverend Monsignor Liam Boyle (91), a native of Rathkeale, and later […]
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