‘Church scandals should be brought into open’

DONAL MURRAY, now aged 69, was brought up in Mount Merrion in Dublin. His father, Tom, a native of Templederry in North Tipperary, was a senior civil servant who went on to become chairman of the ESB.

After Blackrock College, Donal Murray went to Clonliffe College seminary and did an MA at UCD at the same time.

He then spent four years in Maynooth before being ordained in 1966.