Priest recalls day he polished off Pope's dinner

The day he burst in on the Pope and ended up eating his dinner was recalled today by an Irish priest as Catholics around the world mourned his passing.

The day he burst in on the Pope and ended up eating his dinner was recalled today by an Irish priest as Catholics around the world mourned his passing.

Father Brian Darcy was one of the organisers of the historic papal visit to Ireland in 1979 and inadvertently met him backstage after the celebration of Mass before over a million people in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

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