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A Drogheda-born priest has been chosen as an assistant to the new Superior-general of the Holy Ghost Congregation. At the Order’s Chapter in Paris fast week, Fr. John Daly, C.S.Sp. of King Street was the only Irish man among the six assistant generals who were elected.

He was educated in St. Patrick’s N.S., Scarlet Street, Ring County Waterford and Blackrock College, Dublin. He did his novitiate in Kilshane, County Tipperary and from then went to Kimmage Manor, Dublin.

While attached to Kimmage, he studied for his B.A. and M.A. at U.C.D. and afterwards taught for two years in Blackrock College from where he received his H. Dip. From 1949 to 1953 he studied theology in Frobdurg (Switzerland) University where he was ordained in 1952.

He was sent to Nigeria in 1954 and was attached to schools and seminaries there, in various capacities, until his expulsion after the Nigerian Civil War in 1970.

He was one of a number of clergy who were imprisoned during the war, but he only served eight days of a six month sentence after which he was expelled.

His stay in Nigeria was broken during 196465 when he was appointed peritus to Vatican II. He served as theological advisor to the Nigerian bishops at the council.

During 1970, he researched a report on relief work carried out during the Nigerian war for Joint Church Aid. Later in the year he went on an exploratory mission to Papua, New Guinea, on behalf of the Holy Ghost Fathers.

In 1971 he became chaplain to a government secondary school in Zambia where he worked until his return to Paris for the Chapter.

retreat house until the day’s work is over. And in the normal course, they can be long hours.

Incidentally, the entire range of the Dunleer output is for export to British and Continental markets. By 1983 it is hoped to step up the workforce to close on three hundred, and by then it is likely that the company will have made up its mind whether to take up an option on a nineacre stretch which isn’t at the moment in the manufacturing zone.

Manager of Materials and Manufacturing is Dunleer man Mr. Peter Callan, Coneyboro, and other key appointments include: M/s. David Momeyer (Financial Controller), Colman Collins (Personnel Manager), Tony Howley (ex-Wavin Ferdia) (Training Instructor), Paddy McCullough, Monasterboice, and Dermot McAdam from Tallanstown (Production Supervisors), and Mrs. Mary Boffey, Dunleer (Secretary to the Managing Director). Recently the President of Westinghouse International, Mr.. John Marous (U.S.) paid a visit to the new Dunleer factory and was very impressed at what he’d seen.