He briefly resumed his post-graduate studies at St Finbarr's Seminary (now College), Cork from January to November 1884.

[1][2][3] Cohalan was an outspoken critic during the Irish War of Independence, condemning acts of violence on both sides.

In July 1920, he pronounced an interdict on the killers of an RIC sergeant, shot dead in the church porch in Bandon.

[4] Bessborough was run by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and when the department "sought a change of superior in Bessborough because of the appallingly high death rate, he [Catholic Bishop of Cork Dr Daniel Cohalan] denounced the request.

The replacement of the Bessborough superior was delayed for four years after the department requested it, and many infants died during that time.