Topic: Activism
Final farewell for campaigning Irish priest
May 6, 2004 ·
Published in The Irish Catholic Father Niall O’Brien’, whose funeral Mass was celebrated this week in Dalgan Park, Navan, said in a final interview his only crime was to help poor Filipinos get a decent wage to support their families. Jailed in the Philippines by the Marcos Government in 1983 he recalled that the reason […]
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May 1, 2004 · , Published in The Irish Times
Father Niall O’Brien, who has died aged 64, became known internationally in the early 1980s during a 17-month Philippines trial on a trumped-up murder charge. He was one of the “Negros Nine” accused under the Marcos dictatorship of shooting a mayor on the southern sugar island of Negros. A Columban missionary, who worked for nearly […]
Read More...Turbulent priest with a social mission
May 1, 2004 ·
Published in The Irish Times Father Niall O’Brien, who has died aged 64, became known internationally in the early 1980s during a 17-month Philippines trial on a trumped-up murder charge. He was one of the “Negros Nine” accused under the Marcos dictatorship of shooting a mayor on the southern sugar island of Negros. A Columban […]
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