Priest chases thief through fields for collection money

A BRAVE priest left Mass to give chase through fields after a man who had stolen the collection money.

Fr Donal Berney, the local Catholic curate in Screen, just outside Wexford town, had been the victim of a previous assault and robberies, having had his home ransacked twice in four years.

That did not deter him, however, from taking after the man who stole parish collections 10 minutes into the recent 9.30am Mass.