Éamonn Oliver Walsh

On 11 August 2010, it was announced that Pope Benedict XVI did not accept Bishop Walsh's resignation and that he would return to ministry within the archdiocese along with Bishop Raymond Field. He retired on 30 September 2019, at the age of 75.

After the publication of the 2009 Murphy Report into child abuse in the Dublin Diocese, Bishop Walsh said in an interview:

Bishop Walsh and Bishop Ray Field offered an apology to child-abuse victims as they announced their resignations during Christmas Midnight Mass on 24 December 2009. There are therefore no currently active Auxiliary Bishops to assist Archbishop Martin. This is in addition to this month of two other bishops, Donal Murray of Limerick and James Moriarty of Kildare, who have also resigned following the publication on 26 November of a three-year investigation into why so many abusive Dublin priests escaped justice for so long.

From Celbridge, Co. Kildare, Dr. Walsh, studied for the priesthood at Clonliffe College and at the Lateran University. He received a BA Degree in Philosophy and a Licence in Theology. He is also a qualified Barrister-at-Law. He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Dublin on 13 April 1969. He served as a secretary to Archbishop Kevin McNamara during his tenure as Archbishop of Dublin. He served as Dean of Clonliffe College from 1977 to 1985. On 7 March 1990 Pope John Paul II appointed Walsh as Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin and Titular Bishop of Elmhama. He was ordained bishop on 22 April with Archbishop Desmond Connell as consecrator and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Emanuele Gerada and Bishop James Kavanagh as principal co-consecrators.

Éamonn Oliver Walsh BA, STL, BL (born 1 September 1944) is an Irish Catholic bishop and is one of the two Emeritus Auxiliary Bishops of Dublin, the other being Raymond W. Field.