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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Louise Walsh

Priest says mass in Irish pub after church closed as hundreds attend

The owners of an Irish pub in Luxembourg said they initially thought a priest's emergency plea to use their bar to say mass was a prank call.

Irish Redemptorist priest Fr Michael Cusack set up his altar, near a Hop House Lager 13 sign, in the pub for two weeks to say mass after his church was closed for renovations

But bar owners Vincent and Adrienne Clarke first believed the telephone call from Fr Michael, who they never before met, asking to say mass in their pub until alternative accommodation could be found, was a hoax.

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