'I have to bring happiness into people's lives': Cork's Fr Kevin on his TikTok stardom

Fr Kevin: "I don’t actually know anything about TikTok at all."

A screenshot from Fr Kevin Kiernan's TikTok account which shows the St Finbarr’s Hospital chaplain and Vera McGrath

A Cork priest is making unlikely waves on social media as his light-hearted TikTok videos whip up a viral storm.

Fr Kevin Kiernan, a chaplain at St Finbarr’s Hospital in Cork city, started producing the short videos with his friend Vera McGrath in order to send them to his nieces, who are fond of the app.