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the most reverend not applicable eamonn oliver walsh
 fiachra Ó ceallaigh my lord bishop
eamonn oliver walsh

eamonn oliver walsh ba , stl , bl -lrb- born 1 september 1944 -rrb- is an irish catholic bishop and is one of the two active auxiliary bishops of dublin , the other being raymond w. field .
from celbridge , co. .
kildare , dr. walsh , studied for the priesthood at clonliffe college and at the lateran university .
he received a ba degree in philosophy and the licence in theology .
he is also a qualified barrister-at-law .
he was ordained a priest for the diocese of dublin on 13 april 1969 .
he served as a secretary to archbishop kevin mcnamara during his tenure as archbishop of dublin .
he served as dean of clonliffe college from 1977 to 1985 .
on 7 march 1990 pope john paul ii appointed walsh as auxiliary bishop of dublin and titular bishop of `` elmhama '' .
he was ordained bishop on 22 april with archbishop desmond connell as consecrator and apostolic nuncio to ireland archbishop emanuele gerada and bishop james kavanagh as principal co-consecrators .
after the publication of the 2009 murphy report into child abuse in the dublin diocese , bishop walsh said in an interview that '' `` my record on child protection goes back a long way and it 'll continue .
and if on the other hand the perception continued among the people that i was somebody who was complicit in all of this , then that would be a barrier in my ministry and i could n't even minister as a priest or a bishop if that were to continue . '' ''
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