Complex sentence: In office, McNamara and the neighbouring Bishop of Limerick, Jeramiah Newman, became the most outspoken conservative voices in the Irish hierarchy, out of step with the more diplomatic Primate of All Ireland, Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich and the Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Ryan.
Split into simpler sentences: In office, McNamara and the neighbouring Bishop of Limerick, Jeramiah Newman, became the most outspoken conservative voices in the Irish hierarchy. They were seemingly out of step with the more diplomatic Primate of All Ireland, Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich and the Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Ryan.