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Sat 04 Apr 2007Former provincial of Oblates and reformatory managerFr William McGonagle:Fr William McGonagle, who has died aged 86, was former provincial of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Ireland, Britain and Brazil.He was also a former resident manager of St Conleth's Reformatory School for Boys in Daingean, Co Offaly, and chairman of the Association of Resident Managers of Industrial and Reformatory Schools.