At nine o’clock last Monday morning, Colm O’Gorman received a text telling him that Bishop Brendan Comiskey had died. O’Gorman’s life was entwined with the former Bishop of Ferns in many ways, even though the pair had never met. “I’ve actually never met the man. Never had any direct contact with him at all,” O’Gorman tells me. Yet, there was a lot more to it than that. Anyone who knows O’Gorman’s life will understand. In the weeks before Comiskey resigned in 2003, O’Gorman received a message that Comiskey would like to talk to the men who had featured in the…

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