Bishop Fintan Gavin welcomed school principals, teachers, chairpersons and members of Boards of Management and parent representatives across the 174 catholic schools in the Diocese of Cork and Ross to two Masses for the opening of the school year.

They were celebrated in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clonakilty, on Monday 14th October and in the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne on Tuesday 15th October.