Right Rev.  Monsignor James Ardle, Canon MacMahon

Very sad to hear of Monsignor Ardle's passing.
I always enjoyed the chats we had in Foxrock Golf Club after his weekly game of golf.
RIP.

On behalf of Highfield Healthcare & especially the unit - Farnham and Pinel - I wish to offer our sincere condolences to you the family & friends on Monsignor's passing.
Our thoughts & prayers are with you all at this very sad time.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
May he rest in peace

The Scoil San Treasa community extends its deepest sympathy to the family of Monsignor Mac Mahon. He will always be remembered as a committed and caring person both in his role as chairperson of the Board of Management and in his work with the school. Comhbhrón ó chroí lena chlann agus Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

Rest in peace Monsignor. You were a kind and gentle man. You will be missed greatly.

I'm very sorry to hear of Mgr MacMahon death.
He was a very kind and wise person. Treating all he met with dignity.
Ar dheis De go raibh a anam dilis.

My sincere sympathy to the Mac Mahon family on the sad loss of Mgr Ardle.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.
‘Father, I have finished the work which you gave me to do.’
..... ‘then in His mercy,
May He grant you
a safe lodging,
a Holy rest and peace
at the last.’
Remembering you all and share with you in your grief.

The Mount Anville Secondary School students in Monsignor Mac Mahon's R.E.. classes regarded him as the epitome of Newman's definition of a gentleman.

So sad to hear of 'The Canon's' death . He was a great supporter of the Mount Merrion Folk Group that we started and ran for 12 years. He only ever asked us to change one word in a Rolling Stones song we wanted to use: ' We dont dispair' he said, so we used a different line.
Always gracious and prayerful, he was a favourite of my mother and she would do anything for him.
His wisdom and counsel will be missed Rest in Peace.

Bí brón orm a chloisteáil faoi bhás Monsignor Mac Mahon. He was chairperson of the BOM when I became Principal of Scoil San Treasa in 1996. He was a highly principled man who took great interest in the parish schools. Combhrón ó chroí lena chlann, leis an bparóiste agus an deoise. Go dtuga Diia suaimhneas síorraí dó.
Proinsias Ó hÓgáin, former Principal, Scoil San Treasa, Mount Merrion.

Deepest sympathies to the family of Monsignor James Ardle Mc Mahon. He was a great person and fondly remembered by all of Mt Merrion parish and further afield .. May he rest in peace.

Kindly remembered for his ministry to Mount Anville Junior and Montessori schools, always with such graciousness. Suaibhneas Siorai ar a anam dilis.

Deepest sympathy to Mon. McMahon's family. We in Mount Merrion share with you in your grief as he was a Father figure to all, for many years in Mount Merrion. May his gentle soul rest in peace.

The Cormican Family

It was with great sadness, but with deep gratitude for the goodness of his life, that I learned of the passing of Mgr Ardle MacMahon. I ministered with him in Mount Merrion for ten years, 1988 -1998. He was a man of total commitment to his vocation as a priest, to the Church that he loved so well and above all to his dear parishioners.
I have very many memories of Ardle. I will share one with you. One Sunday evening after the evening Mass he and I were walking down the carpark and he said to me " Martin, I was thinking about our Parish this evening and I was wondering if there was any area of life that you can think of that we are not catering for." Very much the words of a true and concerned pastor.
To all the extended MacMahon family, to his friends and above all to the parishioners of Mount Merrion, I offer my sincere sympathy and an assurance of prayerful remembrance. May your gracious soul, Ardle, rest in the Peace of the Lord you so faithfully served over a very long life.

Our Condolences to the extended family of the Monsignor and also his brother Peter.
True gentlemen in every sense. They will be greatly missed.

Comhbhrón ó chroí to the wider MacMahon family on Mgnr Ardle's passing.

Monsignor MacMahon was a magnificent servant to the Dublin Diocese and to our parish in Mount Merrion. His 25 years as Parish Priest left, and continues to leave, a lasting legacy to the ever-changing fabric of the practice of the faith within our Parish unit.

His personal stability and shepharding were of great support to so many, and his 8 full sequences of visits to the 2000 or so family units in the Parish at that time, primarily on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, was also remarkable!

Even in recent years, he had been very safe and well in his flatlet in the Queen of Peace, Rathgar and then later in Sybil Hill, Raheny, and then in Highfield. Great thanks are due to all those who assisted him in all three locations.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis - ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann

Liam