Dermot Farrell

Dermot Farrell

Monsignor Dermot Pius Farrell was born in Castletown-Geoghegan, County Westmeath in 1955. He was educated at St Finian’s College, Mullingar and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. Now an independent affiliate of the newly constituted Maynooth College of the N.U.I., St. Patrick's houses both the Pontifical University and the National Seminary.

Ordained in 1980, Dr. Farrell undertook postgraduate studies at Maynooth. He had a brief tenure as curate in Mullingar in 1981. In 1985 he went to Rome to complete his doctorate at the Gregorian University, while serving on the staff of the Pontifical Irish College. On his return to the Diocese of Meath in 1988, he was appointed curate in Tullamore. In 1990 he was appointed to the Faculty of Theology at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.