These appointments take effect from Friday, Sept 1st 2012
1. Fr Seamus Gardiner PP Portroe and Vicar General to retire.
2. Fr Pat Malone PP Nenagh to be PP Portroe and Vicar General of the Diocese with continuing responsibility for Child Protection in the Diocese.
3. Fr Albert McDonnell, Irish College in Rome to be Chancellor of the Diocese of Killaloe and PP of Kildysart and Coolmeen/Cranny. He is also appointed Moderator of the Mid Clare -South Cluster.
4. Fr Tony Casey, returning from Mission with the Columban Missionaries in Peru to be Co-ordinator with the Pastoral Development Group and PP Cooraclare.
5. Fr Desmond Hillery, returning from Mission with the Columban Missionaries in Peru to be PP Nenagh.
6. Fr Tom Seymour AP Nenagh, to retire.
7. Fr Paddy O’Brien AP Bodyke/Tuamgraney to retire.
8. Fr Colm Hogan, PP Kildysart and Coolmeen/Cranny to study in All Hallows College, Dublin.
9. Fr Tom Hannon to continue studies in Spirituality in St Anselm’s Institute of Spirituality, Kent, England.
10. Fr Maurice Harmon to continue his appointment on the staff of Mary Immaculate College of Education and to be Assistant to the Scáth na Sionnaine cluster at weekends.
11. Fr Tom O’Gorman CC Cloughleigh to be Adm. Cloughleigh.
12. Fr Dan Fitzgerald, to retire, recalled to his Missionary Society - Columban Missionaries.