complete his studies in the newly opened Maynooth College. A new theatre had been built in Lille in 1785 and it is possible that this was where Fr. O'Reilly got his inspiration. This theatre was completely destroyed by fire in 1903. The formal opening of St. Mary's took place on Sunday 20 October 1839 at High Mass offered by Bishop Cantwell. The collection on the occasion raised £178. 14s. 6d. The church itself contains a monument commemorating the fact that it was built with the permission of the major landowner in the area at the time, the Duke of Bedford. The Duke's family, the Russells, were also commemorated until recently in the name of a nearby hotel (since rebuilt and renamed). The local Church of Ireland contains a balcony that was reserved for the duke and his family when they attended services there. Church webcam and technology In April 2007, in conjunction with P5tv (Province 5 Television), the parish installed a camera under the organ loft to broadcast mass live to Navan and its environs every day at 10AM on the UPC television cable network. In December 2007, P5tv installed a second encoder to broadcast the video signal to the Parish website. In July 2008, P5tv created a pressuremat system with an intelligent camera that allows the camera pan tilt and zoom features to be used whenever a priest stood on a mat. P5tv developed this in house with the assistance of their virtual director. P5tv also installed an adoration static camera which displays the Blessed Sacrament continually. Bishop is parish priest Navan is one of the two mensal parishes of the diocese of Meath, the other being the Cathedral Parish of Mullingar. The parish priest of Navan is therefore the Bishop of Meath. Bishop Patrick J. Plunkett (1778–1827) and probably Bishop Robert Logan (1827–1830) resided at Navan, but Bishop John Cantwell (1830–1866) established his residence at Mullingar. On the death of Fr. Eugene O'Reilly, Parish Priest of Navan, in 1852, Bishop Cantwell petitioned the Holy See to have Navan as a mensal parish and his request was acceded to the following year. Since the construction of an episcopal palace in Mullingar by Bishop Thomas Nulty (1866–1898) in the late 1870s, the official residence of the Bishop of Meath has been in Mullingar where his cathedral is located. The bishop is represented as parish priest in Navan by an 'administrator'