Cormac McConnell: Bishop Casey brought humanity to his office

I went into the chapel in the early afternoon to talk my way to my God about Bishop Casey. The chapel was almost empty. That is the way it often is nowadays.

I lit a candle for Eamon Casey whom I came to know quite well during the years when he was the colourfully charismatic Bishop of Galway and I was The Sunday Press man in Connacht, I grinned at the flickering reality that his candle instantly began to burn more brightly than the three dimly guttering ones dying in their holders alongside.

That, for sure, was the way he was always.