THE LOVECHILD OF former bishop Eamon Casey says that he wanted to ‘deck’ Gay Byrne over a Late Late Show interview with his mother.
Peter Murphy, whose mother Annie Murphy was once the lover of the former Bishop of Galway and Kilmacudagh, was speaking to Donal McIntyre for TV3′s upcoming Print and be Damned series.
The programme, which airs on Thursday at 9pm, explores the history of Ireland’s newspapers and the stories they have broken and those they have missed.
In the first episode, Donal McIntyre speaks to Murphy about the infamous 1993 interview between Byrne and his mother. In the interview, Byrne told Murphy that if Peter turned out to be half the man Casey was, he would be doing alright.
The first thing you want to do is drop him. What I loved the best was my mom’s response. The way she got up and walked out, I was like “hell yeah”.
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