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From priesthood to world peace: meet Michael O’Flaherty, Europe’s new human rights commissioner
Michael O’Flaherty, the new Human Rights Commissioner for the Council of Europe on peace in Northern Ireland, the UN, and fundamental goodness
Before getting into international human rights work, Michael O’Flaherty, the new Human Rights Commissioner for the Council of Europe, was briefly an ordained priest in Galway.
“If you place a value on making contribution back to society, and you're a kid in Ireland in the 1970s and 80s, it was a kind of natural thing to gravitate towards priesthood,” O’Flaherty told the Business Post.
“But for me, at a certain point, I realised that it ...
