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08 Sept 2025

BREAKING: Major clerical changes in Tipperary as part of reshuffle

Ballylooby/Duhill Notes

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There have been major clerical changes in one Tipperary community as part of a big reshuffle.

The community of Ballyooby and Duhill welcome Fr Taddeo Hammerle, CC, and native of Austria and a priest of the Order of Mary.

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Fr Hammerle will be an additional priest who will be helping in the local parishes.

The community also welcomes Fr Luke de Masi (a native of USA a priest of The Servants Home of the Mother Order) who has been assigned to Clogheen, Burncourt and Ballyporeen and is replacing Fr James Ayuba (a native of Nigeria) who will be moving to Dungarvan.

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Good wishes to all three priests in their new parochial duties.

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