Bishop David O’Connell was a regular visitor to Cork where he was on Monday remembered with fondness
It said, in a statement, the shooting was reported at approximately 12.57pm on Saturday.
It appealed to anyone with any information about the killing to contact investigators the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau. The bishop attended Glounthaune National School before obtaining his secondary education at Farranferris College in Cork city and proceeding to All Hallows in Dublin where he began his studies for the priesthood.
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