Comiskey ‘was not forced to resign’

BISHOP Brendan Comiskey’s replacement stood by him yesterday, insisting the former Bishop of Ferns was not forced to resign.

Dr Eamonn Walsh rejected claims made in a BBC documentary on Wednesday and said now was the time for healing, rather than raking over the past.

He apologised for not meeting with clerical sexual abuse victims and their families as quickly as he had hoped.