Fr Philip Dennehy was born in Midleton, East Cork, on 27th March 1931 to Michael and Hannah Dennehy, where his father, from Kerry, was stationed as a member of the Garda Siochana.  He was the sixth of eight children. He was ordained a priest in Holy Cross Church, Clonliffe College on the 4th of June 1955.

He served as priest of the Dublin Diocese in the following appointments:

• Chaplain to Our Lady’s Hospital, Dun Laoghaire -1955-1956;
• St. Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park 1956-1957;
• Eastwall 1957-1960;
• Valleymount 1960-1963; Athy 1963-1973;
• James’s Street 1973-1978;
• Corduff 1978-1979;
• Administrator of Monkstown 1979-1980;
• Parish Priest of Mountview 1980-1985;
• Parish Priest of Athy 1985-2005.

He became Pastor Emeritus in 2006 and continued to live in Athy Parish.

We thank God for Fr. Phil’s 67 years of service as a priest, of which he spent 47 of those years in Athy Parish. He died peacefully in his own home on Monday evening 31st January 2022. The Funeral Mass, which took place in St. Michael’s Church Athy, on Thursday morning the 3rd February, was a celebration of the life and ministry of Fr. Philip Dennehy at which Archbishop Dermot Farrell presided. Following the Funeral Mass according to his wishes, Fr. Phil was buried,  with his parents, Michael and Hannah Dennehy, in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Ballygunner, Co. Waterford.

We express our sympathy to his sister Áine Costello, his nieces and nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, relatives and friends, Archbishop Dermot Farrell, his fellow priests, and his parishioners.

“Well done good and faithful servant” (Mt. 25:23)