Michael Neary said : “The ministry of the deacon, understood and exercised properly, does not detract and should never detract from the vital role of the empowered laity. Indeed, it should and does enrich it,”

MayoNews Monday, November 29, 2021 11:12:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “This is the first ordination to the Permanent Diaconate in our Archdiocese and, in that sense, it indicates a new beginning”

con-telegraph Tuesday, November 23, 2021 12:30:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “your many gifts, your reputation as a hard-working, kind and generous pastoral leader - as well as being a popular bishop amongst your priests and people - precedes you”

irishtimes Wednesday, November 10, 2021 2:21:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said ( about Virgin Mary ) : “I pray that pilgrims from all over Ireland and from across the world who come here, carrying their crosses, will experience deeply God’s closeness, the tenderness of the Virgin Mary and the company of the saints, so as to be encouraged and enabled to return home with a more buoyant faith, with hope in their hearts and a more ardent love for God and neighbour,”

irishtimes Saturday, March 20, 2021 8:07:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary added : “This is a momentous event, and it is most fitting that it would be announced and celebrated on the Feast of Saint Joseph in the Year of Saint Joseph, because alongside Our Lady, Saint John the Evangelist and the Lamb of God, Saint Joseph also appeared here on that August evening in 1879”

thejournal Saturday, March 20, 2021 1:41:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “he was at home in every diocese because of the simple fact that he taught generations of Irish priests, most of whom served in Ireland, some of whom brought the Gospel to the very ends of the world,”

irishtimes Friday, February 26, 2021 1:12:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “These attitudes were wrong and very sad. The Church failed in its responsibility to love and cherish those who were thus diminished. What this report makes clear to me is that when the Church is not serving with compassion, it is failing. For that I am genuinely sorry. As a Church leader I apologise unreservedly,”

MayoNews Thursday, January 21, 2021 6:48:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary acknowledged : “and humbly ask forgiveness for the abject failure of the church for the pain and suffering visited on those women and their children in the mother and baby homes nationally”

irishtimes Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:16:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary concludes : “Finally, I want to thank yourselves for your co-operation, understanding, generosity and support and I take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very happy and peaceful Christmas and pray that the New Year will be a year of great blessings for you, your family and all those dear to us,”

MayoNews Wednesday, December 23, 2020 1:20:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "We remember and we pray for all those who died without the consoling presence of the family and could not be with them to hold their hand and whisper words of appreciation and reassure them with our prayers as they passed from this world,"

RTERadio Sunday, November 22, 2020 5:24:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said ( about Paul Dempsey ) : “I have no doubt but that our new bishop, in keeping with his name, Paul, will invest his ministry with responsibility, love, service and self-giving”

leinsterleader Tuesday, September 1, 2020 4:05:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “I can go down the block to 7-Eleven and get ice,” “I understand this was a decent storm, but it wasn’t Sandy. This should be resolved”

newsday-USA Monday, August 10, 2020 10:41:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “They told me we’d be restored by Saturday at the latest. That obviously didn’t happen,”

newsday-USA Monday, August 10, 2020 10:41:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said ( about Holy Mountain ) : "The National Pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday is an important annual occasion for many people, and it has a long and distinguished history. Climbing Ireland’s Holy Mountain provides an opportunity for pilgrims to pray both in petition and in thanksgiving, to participate at Mass and to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance at the summit. "

leitrimobserver Wednesday, May 20, 2020 3:36:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "Today the Church formally acknowledges that this healing does not admit of any medical explanation and joins in prayer, praise and thanksgiving to God. "

independent-ie Monday, September 2, 2019 3:22:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “hope, healing and comfort to the people who suffered so much for a long time and it continues to do so today,”

westernpeople Tuesday, August 27, 2019 3:02:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “To his eternal credit he always focused on the issue itself. He never, ever allowed personalities to distract from the central issue. That is something that all those who have come to know and respect him have admired,”

MayoNews Wednesday, August 14, 2019 9:27:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “People don’t stop wanting God because they stop believing in Him. And that enduring hunger marks the modern western world. It questions, suspects, argues, is dismayed, disappointed, disbelieving and yet keeps searching,”

MayoNews Friday, August 2, 2019 5:04:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "I've caught nuns, I've caught priests, I've caught neighbours, lads I went to school with,"

smh Sunday, September 10, 2017 6:40:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “I was greatly shocked, as we all were, to learn of the extent of the numbers of children buried in the graveyard at the mother and baby home in Tuam,”

irishsun Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:03:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary added : “I can only begin to imagine the huge emotional wrench which the mothers suffered in giving up their babies for adoption or by witnessing their death,”

irishsun Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:03:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : "necessary step on the path to truth"

RTERadio Monday, March 6, 2017 6:06:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : "We don’t play hurling for this. I think this should be dealt with by officials. I was shocked at the nature of the abuse and it is a concerning element that has crept into the game. Discipline is very important but it is very hard to keep control when provoked with comments like this which lead to frustration,"

sundayworld Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:40:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "We don’t play hurling for this. I think this should be dealt with by officials. I was shocked at the nature of the abuse and it is a concerning element that has crept into the game. Discipline is very important but it is very hard to keep control when provoked with comments like this which lead to frustration,"

independent-ie Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:30:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “The ministry of the deacon, understood and exercised properly, does not detract and should never detract from the vital role of the empowered laity. Indeed, it should and does enrich it,”

MayoNews Monday, November 29, 2021 11:12:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “This is the first ordination to the Permanent Diaconate in our Archdiocese and, in that sense, it indicates a new beginning”

con-telegraph Tuesday, November 23, 2021 12:30:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “your many gifts, your reputation as a hard-working, kind and generous pastoral leader - as well as being a popular bishop amongst your priests and people - precedes you”

irishtimes Wednesday, November 10, 2021 2:21:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said ( about Virgin Mary ) : “I pray that pilgrims from all over Ireland and from across the world who come here, carrying their crosses, will experience deeply God’s closeness, the tenderness of the Virgin Mary and the company of the saints, so as to be encouraged and enabled to return home with a more buoyant faith, with hope in their hearts and a more ardent love for God and neighbour,”

irishtimes Saturday, March 20, 2021 8:07:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary added : “This is a momentous event, and it is most fitting that it would be announced and celebrated on the Feast of Saint Joseph in the Year of Saint Joseph, because alongside Our Lady, Saint John the Evangelist and the Lamb of God, Saint Joseph also appeared here on that August evening in 1879”

thejournal Saturday, March 20, 2021 1:41:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “he was at home in every diocese because of the simple fact that he taught generations of Irish priests, most of whom served in Ireland, some of whom brought the Gospel to the very ends of the world,”

irishtimes Friday, February 26, 2021 1:12:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “These attitudes were wrong and very sad. The Church failed in its responsibility to love and cherish those who were thus diminished. What this report makes clear to me is that when the Church is not serving with compassion, it is failing. For that I am genuinely sorry. As a Church leader I apologise unreservedly,”

MayoNews Thursday, January 21, 2021 6:48:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary acknowledged : “and humbly ask forgiveness for the abject failure of the church for the pain and suffering visited on those women and their children in the mother and baby homes nationally”

irishtimes Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:16:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary concludes : “Finally, I want to thank yourselves for your co-operation, understanding, generosity and support and I take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very happy and peaceful Christmas and pray that the New Year will be a year of great blessings for you, your family and all those dear to us,”

MayoNews Wednesday, December 23, 2020 1:20:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "We remember and we pray for all those who died without the consoling presence of the family and could not be with them to hold their hand and whisper words of appreciation and reassure them with our prayers as they passed from this world,"

RTERadio Sunday, November 22, 2020 5:24:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said ( about Paul Dempsey ) : “I have no doubt but that our new bishop, in keeping with his name, Paul, will invest his ministry with responsibility, love, service and self-giving”

leinsterleader Tuesday, September 1, 2020 4:05:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “I can go down the block to 7-Eleven and get ice,” “I understand this was a decent storm, but it wasn’t Sandy. This should be resolved”

newsday-USA Monday, August 10, 2020 10:41:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “They told me we’d be restored by Saturday at the latest. That obviously didn’t happen,”

newsday-USA Monday, August 10, 2020 10:41:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said ( about Holy Mountain ) : "The National Pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday is an important annual occasion for many people, and it has a long and distinguished history. Climbing Ireland’s Holy Mountain provides an opportunity for pilgrims to pray both in petition and in thanksgiving, to participate at Mass and to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance at the summit. "

leitrimobserver Wednesday, May 20, 2020 3:36:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "Today the Church formally acknowledges that this healing does not admit of any medical explanation and joins in prayer, praise and thanksgiving to God. "

independent-ie Monday, September 2, 2019 3:22:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “hope, healing and comfort to the people who suffered so much for a long time and it continues to do so today,”

westernpeople Tuesday, August 27, 2019 3:02:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “To his eternal credit he always focused on the issue itself. He never, ever allowed personalities to distract from the central issue. That is something that all those who have come to know and respect him have admired,”

MayoNews Wednesday, August 14, 2019 9:27:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : “People don’t stop wanting God because they stop believing in Him. And that enduring hunger marks the modern western world. It questions, suspects, argues, is dismayed, disappointed, disbelieving and yet keeps searching,”

MayoNews Friday, August 2, 2019 5:04:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "I've caught nuns, I've caught priests, I've caught neighbours, lads I went to school with,"

smh Sunday, September 10, 2017 6:40:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : “I was greatly shocked, as we all were, to learn of the extent of the numbers of children buried in the graveyard at the mother and baby home in Tuam,”

irishsun Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:03:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary added : “I can only begin to imagine the huge emotional wrench which the mothers suffered in giving up their babies for adoption or by witnessing their death,”

irishsun Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:03:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : "necessary step on the path to truth"

RTERadio Monday, March 6, 2017 6:06:00 AM EAT

Michael Neary said : "We don’t play hurling for this. I think this should be dealt with by officials. I was shocked at the nature of the abuse and it is a concerning element that has crept into the game. Discipline is very important but it is very hard to keep control when provoked with comments like this which lead to frustration,"

sundayworld Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:40:00 PM EAT

Michael Neary said : "We don’t play hurling for this. I think this should be dealt with by officials. I was shocked at the nature of the abuse and it is a concerning element that has crept into the game. Discipline is very important but it is very hard to keep control when provoked with comments like this which lead to frustration,"

independent-ie Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:30:00 PM EAT