A Question of Taste with Fr Brian D'Arcy

Fr Brian D’Arcy was born near Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh in 1945. At 17, he joined the local monastery of St Gabriel’s, The Graan, in Enniskillen and was ordained a priest in December 1969, fifty years ago this year. “Before entering my two big interests were Gaelic football and music. They still are,” he says.

D’Arcy’s recently-published memoir, It Has to Be Said, chronicles his life and reflects on his devotion to his ministry in an Ireland in which traditional views on religion, marriage, sexuality, female priests, etc are being challenged.