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Colm O’Reilly (born 11 January 1935) is an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise from 1983 to 2013.The youngest of seven children O’Reilly was born to John and Alicia O’Reilly in Colmcille County Longford. His eldest brother Peter (died 1988) was superior general of St. Patrick’s Missionary Society for sixteen years and another brother Brendan (died 2000) was a member of the Divine Word Missionaries. He studied at St.