Talk:Joseph Duffy (bishop)

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I know sometimes Wikipedia articles can rather gild the lilly a bit, but this article is OTT. For example, it suggests that the re-ordering of St Macartan's Cathedral has won widespread praise.

It hasn't. It has won almost universal condemnation as an exceptionally insensitive renovation that effectively destroyed a highly regarded interior. Internationally known architectural historian and expert the late Dr Maurice Craig was scathing about it. So were architects, journalists and the local people. St Macartan's Cathedral was regarded as one of the (few) gems of Irish church architecture in the last 200 years. Duffy's re-ordering is seen as having destroyed it, and reduced the cathedral's architectural significance dramatically. What he did in St Macartan's is widely compared to Bishop Eamon Casey's infamous butchery of the formerly acclaimed gothic masterpiece, Killarney Cathedral in the 1970s, with the two cases often cited by architects and planners in almost the same breath as examples of how to make a mess of a masterpiece. 109.79.133.1 (talk) 15:22, 10 August 2011 (UTC) Yes this is correct, the renovation ruined what was a beautiful altar,and transformed the Cathedral into a  dogs dinner of a mix of the original and  some type of modernist style, and the cost was ridiculous!