Casey’s son: I fled in tears at our first meeting

When Eamon Casey’s son first met his father, the then Catholic bishop of Galway so upset the youngster that he fled from him in tears.

Peter Murphy, 38, first met Casey in the early 1990s in a law office after his mother, Annie Murphy, threatened to reveal the relationship unless the bishop acknowledged his son.

“My memory of the event is me trying to engage him and he having no interest in engaging with me,” Peter tells reporter Donal MacIntyre in a first part of a television documentary on Irish newspapers to be aired next week on TV3.