Richard Hogan: 'I am a sinner — but I want to be around the message that I am good too'

If the Church could modernise, I think we'd see a massive resurgence in faith

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

Whenever I hear church bells carrying down the avenue in Seabury, Malahide, I stop and listen. There is something in them that halts me in my tracks. The echoing sound of bells breaking over the roofs of houses. The congregation tuned into something ancient.

In fact, I have the same reaction when The Angelus clamours over the airwaves, drenched in pathos and gravitas. I stop.