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A Pope of hopeCork bishops welcome election of new Pontiff

Election of new Pope welcomed by Cork bishops and religious.

Seven arrested as gardaíprobe fraudulent motor claims

SEVEN people were releasedovernight following their arrestsyesterday morning in relation tofraudulent motor insurance injuryclaims.The seven, four women and threemen, were detained yesterdaymorning as part of a gardainvestigation called OperationNascar. Two of the arrests tookplace in the Midlands while theremaining five took place in thenorth Cork garda division.They are part of an ongoinginvestigation into suspectedorganised fraudulent motorinsurance injury claims.Gardaí in Anglesea Street made the

By DEIRDRE O’REILLY

arrests under Section 4 of theCriminal Justice Act. One male wasreleased without charge yesterdayafternoon and the remaining sixwere further questioned andreleased overnight, also withoutcharge. A garda spokesman said:“These detentions are phase two ofan ongoing garda investigation andthe arrests were made as part of acoordinated strategy by the gardaí.Previous arrests were made lastmonth in Limerick and Cork.”A file on the matter is now to besent to the DPP.

CORK’S bishops and reli-gious leaders today de-scribed the election of PopeFrancis I as ‘ground-break-ing’ and ‘a time of hope’.

The Catholic Church’s surpris-ing new leader from “the end ofthe earth,” Cardinal Jorge MarioBergoglio, is the first Pontiff fromthe New World, the firstnon-European since the MiddleAges, the first Pope from theAmericas, the first Jesuit and thefirst named Francis, after St Fran-cis of Assisi.The 76-year-old archbishop of

Buenos Aires celebrated his first

By DEIRDRE O’REILLY, RONAN BAGNALL AND PADRAIG HOARE

“He is a man of simplicity andhumility. I pray that the Pontific-ate of Francis will be a long andhappy one and that he will succeedin bringing the people close togod.”Bishop of Cloyne William Crean,

who took over the diocese in Janu-ary, said: “On behalf of the priestsand the people of Cloyne, I warmlywelcome the election of Pope Fran-cis. As the first Latin AmericanPope, he is already breaking newground. We look forward with● Continued on page four.

Mass in the Sistine Chapel as Popetoday ahead of his inaugural Massnext Tuesday in the Vatican,which will be attended by Presid-ent Michael D Higgins and Minis-ter Michael Noonan.Bishop of Cork and Ross Dr John

Buckley said he was most im-pressed by the new Pope’s wordsafter his election last night.“I was impressed with the way

he invited people to pray for himand pray with him and then ledthe crowd in prayer,” said thebishop.

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