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Cahal Brendan Daly is a native of Loughguile, was educated at St Patrick's National School in Loughguile, and at St. Malachy's College , Belfast , and Queen's University Of Belfast . He was ordained a Priest in June 1941. He studied Philosophy and Theology in St Patrick's College, Maynooth where he received a Doctorate in Divinity in 1944. His first appointment was as Classics Master in St Malachy's College, Belfast ( 1945 - 1946 ). In 1946 he was appointed Lecturer in Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast. He became a Reader in Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's in 1963, a post he held until 1967, when he was appointed Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnois. He attended the Second Vatican Council . In 1982 he was appointed Bishop of Down & Connor in succession to Bishop William Philbin. He had been expected to end his career in this larger diocese before being the surprise choice, at the age of 73, when the Archdiocese of Armagh fell vacant on the death of a younger man. On 6 November , 1990 , he was appointed Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland in Succession to Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich . He took a notably harder line against the Irish Republican Army than his predecessor, Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich . He was later created a Cardinal on 28 June , 1991 . Cardinal Daly retired as Archbishop of Armagh on October 1 , 1996 , his 79th birthday. Though the ordinary retirement age for Catholic bishops is 75, Cardinal Daly remained in office until his 79th birthday. He has since suffered considerable illhealth. Although it had been announced that he would attend the Funeral Of Pope John Paul II , he stayed home on the advice of his doctors. As he had turned 80 in 1997, he was ineligible to participate in the 2005 Conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI . Cardinal Daly has the motto, "Jesus Christ, yesterday and today" taken from the Epistle to the Hebrews (13.8). The Cardinals armorial bearings show the arms of the Archdiocese of Armagh on the left side of the shield, and the personal arms of His Eminence on the right side. The right side of the shield shows a personalised variation of the arms of the Ó Dálaigh family.
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