Dermot Patrick O'Mahony (18 February 1935 – 10 December 2015) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, O'Mahoney was ordained to the priesthood on 29 May 1960. On 13 February 1975, O'Mahony was appointed titular bishop of ''Thiava'' and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin and was ordained bishop on 13 April 1975. He studied for the priesthood at Clonliffe College, and spent 4 years at the Pontifical University of Rome. He was Professor at Clonliffe College. He was Chairman of the Irish Bishops' Commission for Justice and Peace and tried to find a resolution of the

1981 Hunger Strikes The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Cat ...

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Maze Prison Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as The Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house alleged paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to Sept ...

. On 7 June 1996, O'Mahony resigned.Dermot Patrick O'Mahony
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1935 births 2015 deaths Alumni of Clonliffe College Auxiliary bishops of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin People from Enniskillen Christian clergy from County Fermanagh 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests 21st-century Irish Roman Catholic priests {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub