Controversial former Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Desmond Connell, dies aged 90, writes Liam Collins.
Cardinal Desmond Connell, who died overnight last Monday in Dublin, at
the age of 90, was a sincere and learned academic theologian,
ill-equipped to deal with the sexual abuse scandal which had engulfed
the Irish Catholic Church and into which he was plunged after his
appointment as Archbishop of Dublin in 1988.http://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/cardinal-connell-was-illsuited-to-deal-with-the-child-abuse-scandal-35482847.html