The chapel of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, was filled last Sunday evening to honour and celebrate the music and ministry of Fr Liam Lawton. Many of Fr Lawton’s family and friends attended the event including Archbishop Eamon Martin, singers Eimear Quinn, Malachi Cush, Karl McGuckin and the Carlow Cathedral Choir.
Mary Kennedy presented the evening’s programme, and Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Denis Nulty presented Fr Lawton with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, a medal of the Holy See awarded to clergy and laity for distinguished long-term service to the Catholic Church.
Bishop Nulty said on an X post that he was “delighted” to be part of the “very moving hope-filled evening”. Bishop Martin said the evening was a “celebration of the immense contribution of Fr Liam Lawton to sacred music in Ireland and all over the world.”
