Lessons from school shootings: Cork priest features in new Netflix documentary about Sandy Hook massacre

A powerful new Netflix documentary looks at the bond between two Catholic priests, a friendship forged in compassion in the wake of two horrific mass shootings. Donal O’Keeffe spoke with one of those priests, Cork man Monsignor Basil O’Sullivan

Lessons from school shootings: Cork priest features in new Netflix documentary about Sandy Hook massacre

A powerful new Netflix documentary looks at the bond between two Catholic priests, a friendship forged in compassion in the wake of two horrific mass shootings. Donal O’Keeffe spoke with one of those priests, Cork man Monsignor Basil O’Sullivan

“You drop your five-year-old to school, and half an hour later, they’ve been murdered. How do you ever get over that?” asks Monsignor Basil O’Sullivan, speaking from his home in Dunblane. Monsignor O’Sullivan is 86 now, and has lived in Scotland since he was ordained in 1956, but his Cork accent is still clear.

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