The life and times of Bishop Eamonn Casey

Former Irish Examiner Religious Affairs correspondent TP O’Mahony profiles the life of one of Ireland’s most controversial religious figures.

Former Irish Examiner Religious Affairs correspondent TP O’Mahony profiles the life of one of Ireland’s most controversial religious figures.

IRELAND awoke in May 1992 to shocking news - Eamonn Casey, the very popular Bishop of Galway, had fathered a child with an American woman named Annie Murphy, and had fled the country hours before the story of their affair broke.