In 2018 Ireland's Daily Mail on Sunday picked this radio programme- which was an hour-long and I have split into two podcasts - as a highlight of the day and said about it the following. 'During his 1996 Joe Jackson interview father Bryant Darcy revealed for the first time that he was sexually abused. He was highly critical of the laws of celibacy in the Catholic Church, claims that his spiritual training was ‘life-denying’ and that he needed to ‘relearn’ a ‘version of goodness.’ Jackson says: “I'd forgotten how truly soul searching Darcy was, more so than I had space to allow him to be in the original magazine interview.’ All of that I stand over in 2020. It is a definitive soul-searching interview with a priest.

Father Brian D'Arcy 1996. A Definitive Soul Searching interview with a Catholic priest who was one of the inspirations for the TV series Father Ted, but far from only that.

Joe Jackson is a journalist, interviewer, author and IMRO-Award nominated radio presenter/producer. He has interviewed roughly 1,400 people in the world of the arts, politics, and entertainment for all major media outlets in Ireland, including RTE Radio 1, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, and Hot Press. His articles have been published globally in magazines such as Vox, Rolling Stone, and Snoozer. His radio shows include The Years Go Pop, 26 one-hour documentaries a 26 on the history of popular culture, People Get Ready, 52 one-hour documentaries on the greatest music acts of the 20th century, and Under The Influence, which was nominated for a 'Best Music series' award. In 2018, his documentary about Elvis Presley, Conversations about the King, was nominated for an IMRO Award in the 'Best Music Documentary' category.

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Father Brian D'Arcy 1996. A Definitive Soul Searching interview with a Catholic priest who was one of the inspirations for the TV series Father Ted, but far from only that.

Father Brian D'Arcy 1996. A Definitive Soul Searching interview with a Catholic priest who was one of the inspirations for the TV series Father Ted, but far from only that.

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