http://www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story.asp?j=24538 Priest shortage crisis as five clergy retire By: Eve Kelliher THE Bishop of Kerry has announced a major reshuffle of clergy in the diocese with five senior priests retiring from service. The changes will take effect from Wednesday, July 18 and they further highlight a serious shortage of priests in the diocese, with five retiring and just one ordination forthcoming. Parishioners will bid farewell to five popular and long-serving clergymen who will retire in July. These include Dingle PP Monsignor P·draig " Fiannachta, Ballyheigue PP Fr Tom Pierse and Canon Patrick Horgan who has served in Rathmore for many years. Also retiring are Glenflesk native Fr Roger Kelleher, who was parish priest in Firies and Fr Michael O'Leary, the Ballymacelligott priest who was seriously injured in a dastardly late night attack near his home last year. Canon Patrick Horgan will become an assistant priest at St Mary's Cathedral in Killarney, while Fr O'Leary will help out with parish duties at St John's in Tralee. Popular Kilcummin parish priest, Fr Tom Looney, moves to Dingle while Fr Tom Leane, parish priest of Our Lady and St Brendan's, Tralee, transfers to take the helm of the parish in Ballyheigue. Fr Larry Kelly moves from Milltown to Rathmore and he will be replaced in Milltown by Fr Pat O'Donnell who had been chaplain at the Institute of Technology in Tralee. Fr Danny Broderick, who has been parish priest in PP, Dromid, Waterville, now becomes parish priest of Our Lady and St Brendan's, Tralee, while Fr Joseph Begley, leaves the teaching staff at St Brendan's College to become parish priest in Kilcummin. Fr Noel Spring, who has served as administrator in Firies, now becomes parish priest there, while Fr Pat Crean-Lynch, a curate in Ken-mare, has been appointed parish priest of Ballymacel-Fr Kevin Sullivan, a curate who had been attached to Our Lady and St Brendan's, Tralee, becomes chaplain of the Institute of Technology, Tralee, while Fr John Kerin, a curate in Rathmore, has been elevated to the post of parish priest in Dromid, Waterville. Fr Padraig Kennelly, a long-time curate in Castleis-land, becomes a curate in St John's parish in Tralee. Fr Jerry Keane, who has been a curate at St John's, transfers to Kenmare, while Fr Michael Moynihan, a curate at St John's, Tralee, has been appointed to the same position in Castleisland. Fr Con Buckley, a curate in Listowel, moves to Rathmore as curate and Fr Patsy Lynch of the Society of African Missions (SMA) becomes a curate in Our Lady and St. Brendan's, Tralee. Meanwhile, Fr Bernard Healy, currently a deacon, will continue post-graduate studies in Rome and will be ordained a priest of the Diocese of Kerry at a ceremony in Our Lady and St Brendan's Church, Tralee, on Sunday next.