World-renowned scripture scholar Jerome Murphy-O'Connor died in Jerusalem on Monday.
He had been ill for some time.
Fr Murphy-O'Connor was a Dominican priest. He was born in Cork in 1935 and joined the Irish Dominicans in 1953. Jerome spent most of his working life in Jerusalem.
An obituary on Jerome will appear in The Irish Times.
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