Priest prays for Hand of God to keep England from victory

A CORK born priest will be praying that, like Maradona in the 1986 World Cup, the Hand of God will this time help Trinidad & Tobago to victory against England today in Nuremberg.

Dominican Fr Dermot Brennan, a native of Mayfield, was an official referee in the Trinidad first division when he was a missionary there between 1969 and 1979.

He now ministers at the Dominican priory in Limerick.

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