These singing priests turned their hobby into a successful career

What started off as a hobby has led to sales of more than three million albums for an unlikely trio, says Ed Power

THE Father Ted jokes did not come as a surprise.

“In Ireland, especially, people were inevitably going to see three singing clergymen as a gimmicky kind of thing,” says Father David Delargy, one of the three men of the cloth who perform together as The Priests (brothers Father Eugene and Father Martin O’Hagan complete the line-up).