Search Takes Place For Missing Youghal Woman

Gardai have concluded searches for a missing woman in Youghal today.

Gardai along with soldiers, the coast guards and members of the Irish Search Dogs Organisation took part in search of disappeared forty five year old woman Tina Satchwell.

Members of the Garda Water Unit also carried out dives close to the shore in Youghal Harbour.

Ms. Satchwell went missing from her home in Grattan Street in the East Cork town on March 20.

Searches were also carried out at the Golf Links road where a section of the road was closed off during the operation.

Gardai have said that they are following over 200 lines of inquiry.

Ms. Satchwell is originally from Fermoy in North Cork is described as five foot six in height and of medium build with shoulder length hair and having blue eyes. It is understood that she moved to Youghal two years ago.  

She was reported missing by her husband on March 24, four days after he arrived home to find her missing after he had gone on a shopping trip in Dungarvan.

Anyone with any information on her disappearance is being asked to contact Midleton Garda Station on (021) 4621550.

It has not been confirmed if the search will resume tomorrow.

Hogan to referee All-Ireland Hurling Final

Fergal Horgan will be in charge of proceedings in this years All-Ireland Hurling Final between Waterford and Galway after the GAA confirmed today that he will be this years referee.

Horgan will become the first Munster referee to take charge on All-Ireland Final day since Waterford’s Michael Wadding was the man in the middle when he took charge of the 2010 final between Tipperary and Kilkenny.

It is the third time that the Knockavilla Kickham’s Clubman has taken charge of an All-Ireland Final, but his first in the senior grade. Previous to this years final he was also the man in the middle for the 2014 All-Ireland Minor Final and Intermediate Final twelve months later.

He has taken charge of a number of big games this year including the Munster Final Clash between Cork and Clare and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Club final between Cuala and Ballyhea.

However he will be most remembered for his most recent inter county game that he refereed as he sent Waterford’s Tadgh de Búrca off against Wexford in the new Pairc Ui Chaoimh following a consultation with his linesman.

He is the first Tipperary referee to take control of the biggest game of hurling of the year since Seamus Roche was the man in the middle in 2005 when Cork beat Galway 1-21 to 1-16.

Cork’s Colm Lyons is the standby referee and linesman while Paud O’Dwyer will run the other line. Limerick’s Johnny Murphy will be the fourth official.

Kilkenny Referee Sean Cleere will be the man in the middle for the minor game between Galway and Cork.

The Tipperary man’s other experience of being in Croke Park on All-Ireland Final day was 21 years ago when he played in goal for the Tipperary Minor team when Tipperary beat Galway 2-14 to 2-12. The captain of that Tipperary team will William Maher, who was appointed a selector with the Waterford Senior hurling team in 2013 after Derek McGrath was first appointed as manager. Previous to this he helped guide Tipperary to win the All-Ireland Minor Final twelve months earlier.

Mount Melleray Abbey Has A New Leader

The Cistercian Community in Mount Melleray has a new Abbot.

Dom Richard Purcell was recently elected as the community’s leader after he filled the same position at Mount Saint Joseph Abbey in Roscrea in County Tipperary, a position he held from 2009, serving first for six years and then on his reappointment in June 2015.

Dom Richard is a native of Rathgar in Dublin, he received his first abbatial blessing from the them Bishop of Killaloe Most Reverend Willie Walsh.  

The new abbot at Mount Melleray entered Mount St Joseph Abbey in 1997, having completed a degree in music and French at UCD.

Dom Richard previously studied Music, French and Italian at UCD. He completed Philosophy studies at Maynooth and Theology studies in Oxford.

On completion of his studies in Oxford, he returned to Saint Joseph’s where he took up the position of bursar. He was ordained in 2007 and became Prior of the Community while retaining the title of bursar.

The Constitution of the Cistercian Congregation does not allow a monk to become an Abbot until he is thirty five years of age and is seven professed.

When he was first elected as Abbot at Saint Joseph’s he failed to reach the requirements to take up the position. 

However after he was voted as Abbot in the North Tipperary Monastery proceedings were suspended while the necessary dispensations were sought from Rome.

Cardinal Rode the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Like and Societies of Apostolic Life issued the dispensation for Dom Purcell to Dom Eamon Fitzgerald, himself a former Abbot of the Mount Melleray Abbey.

The monastery at Mount Melleray was founded on 30 May 1832 at Scrahan on land owned by Sir Richard Keane in Cappoquin by a colony of Irish and English monks, expelled from the abbey of Melleray after the French Revolution of 1830, and who had come to Ireland under the leadership of Fr. Vincent de Paul Ryan. It was called Mount Melleray in memory of the motherhouse. On the feast of St. Bernard, 1833, the foundation stone of the new monastery was blessed by the Most Rev. William Abraham, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore.