Skerries native Bishop Nicholas Grimley performs the annual blessing of fishing boats.
Former Bishop of Cape Palmas Bishop Nicholas Grimley blesses the trawler fleet at Skerries Harbour.
Nicholas Grimley was born in Skerries in 1917 and died in 1996. He was educated at Blackrock College before he spent time in England and America. He studied for the priesthood in Washington and was ordained in 1954 aged 36 and joined the order of The Society of African Missions (SMA). He was ordained Bishop of Cape Palmas, Liberia in 1962.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 15 August 1976. The footage shown here is mute.
