[1][2] Born in Bodyke, County Clare, Ireland on 12 May 1912 to a farming family with three brothers and three sisters.
[2] After Blackrock he went to the Holy Ghost Missionary College at Kimmage Manor, studying philosophy and theology.
Moloney traveled by bike or on foot to area villages and established small catechetical schools.
[2] In Basse, he established a mission school, with a garden for horticultural experiments and fruit trees, in the center of town.
He created readings from the New Testament, a short Bible history, and a catechism in the Fula language and sought to convert people who were not Muslim.
[2] In 1957, the Pope created the Diocese of Bathurst in The Gambia[2] and Moloney appointed its first bishop on 24 December 1957.