"I made the decision to be a priest and to stay a priest. I can look back on life and say that anything I have done, I have done for the right reasons – the decision may be right or wrong, but I did the best I could to make a right decision.”

Fr Brian D’Arcy has called for the Church to allow married men and women to be ordained as priests.

Bishop says priest had no knowledge that Bartholomew Prendergast was abusing children.

“I'm not saying it caused it but it certainly didn't do me any good."