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Thu 11 Nov 2002Majority favours Casey's return to Galway, poll findsThe former bishop of Galway, Dr Eamonn Casey, should be allowed to return to the diocese, according to the majority of those surveyed in an MRBI poll published last night.Some 56 per cent of those surveyed for the poll for TG4 television news also felt the former bishop should not be required to explain his past actions and behaviour, while 33 per cent felt he should. Some 82 per cent of those surveyed felt priests should be allowed to marry.