**Cardinal Cahal Daly, the former Primate of All Ireland, has died in Belfast, it has been announced.**Cardinal Daly was admitted to the coronary intensive care unit at the City Hospital in Belfast on Monday.
In a statement, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland said Cardinal Daly died peacefully in the presence of family and friends.
Cardinal Sean Brady said it was with “great sadness that I heard the news of the death”. The cardinal was 92.
Cardinal Brady said: "It is difficult to do full justice to the significance and achievements of his long, full and happy life.
“But I believe, when fully assessed and appreciated, the legacy of Cardinal Cahal Daly to the ecclesiastical and civil history of Ireland will be seen as immense.”
Born in Loughguile, County Antrim, on 1 October 1917, Cardinal Daly was Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland in the early 1990s.
He was made a cardinal in 1991. He retired in 1996 at the age of 79 and returned to his study of philosophy.
Among his published works are Philosophy in Britain from Bradley to Wittgenstein and The Minding of Planet Earth, published in 2004.
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