1993: "The most talked-about woman in Ireland today"

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8 ай бұрын

Annie Murphy was the American woman who shook Catholic Ireland in the early 1990s by exposing Bishop Eamon Casey as the father of her son. Here she is interviewed on the Late Late Show with Gay Byrne. I've seen the interview uploaded in part elsewhere, but this is it in full.

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@sarahmurphy-nf4yl 6 ай бұрын

Annie was 💯 % RIGHT not to ADOPT out her CHILD.

@andreamongey 6 ай бұрын

This is bullying from women at the time who had no voice fair play to Annie for talking the truth 😢

@maureenmartin4730 6 ай бұрын

Why did Gay think Bishop Casey had no experience ??

@marymcmahon2128 5 ай бұрын

What a woman she handled herself so well. People there should be ashamed of themselves

@connollybrid1984 6 ай бұрын

very brave woman to speak out.

@maryfox7440 5 ай бұрын

??????

@soeffingwhat 2 ай бұрын

Back then yes, now I think she would not be facing against so much. She did say in an interview a few years back that she is amazed at how Ireland has changed.

@joanheney1855 6 ай бұрын

Omg, I remember that interview and thought how unfeeling Gay was. But, after watching it all again I think what a horrible interview that was and how composed Anne stayed. I really hope we have come a long way since then. The way he allowed those people to speak to her for so long was just terrible.

@joanheney1855 6 ай бұрын

Ps. The wrong in this was not what went on with the people involved, it was the terrible way this lady was treated by the Irish people and especially Gay Byrne ☘️☘️

@timcotter8879 5 ай бұрын

I hope life worked out well for Annie and Peter, the way she was treated on the Late Late Show by Gay and the women lined up in the front row. ,,,lF his son is half the man his father was,, l loved her response to Gay when he said that,,, I am not so bad either,,,

@maryhedderman 5 ай бұрын

OMG the way women were treated on the late late show Annie Murphy was a very elegant lady

@angelamass8405 6 ай бұрын

Iv just watched this interview this poor woman was being attacked from elderly sad females that probably fantised about this mam in a frock. He's a man like any other taking advantage of a girl who had some mental health problems. Here we go again with frustrated Irish priest. I wished I'd been in the studio that day tight laced frustrated people who spoke on this. Hope she had a lovely life with her son.

@maureenmartin4730 6 ай бұрын

Wonder where she is now??? And her son???? She was lovely looking… shame the way they were both treated

@md21656 6 ай бұрын

This interview is twisted and unfair. Shame on this guy. I’ve have never seen this show, but his motive was to belittle this woman. She rose to the occasion. .

@gwenfancello5384 6 ай бұрын

True.Thankfully Ireland is in a different position now. In those days the clergy ruled the country, the government were puppets of the Catholic Church.😮

@surferbabe33 6 ай бұрын

What a brave, elegant and dignified lady. I’m ashamed as to how she was treated by both the audience members and by our backward country. I hope we’ve improved since then… I think we have

@stevengascoigne8627 6 ай бұрын

Very Interesting ❤

@genevievewarnerlearmonth9784 6 ай бұрын

1cannot get the sound and l would love to hear what she has to say.

@genevievewarnerlearmonth9784 6 ай бұрын

Please try to send soound voice Genevieve in Cape Town South Africa😢

@gwenfancello5384 6 ай бұрын

💯 agree. I remember having a huge row with my mother at the time. She was of an era when the clergy were idolised and subservience was expected from people. My own mother's words I can still hear today: " She tempted him into breaking his vows". Such was the brainwashing of the Catholic Church. My mother was born in 1930s. I'm glad I'm Irish and born in 50s. At least we have the opportunity to tell the Church to fu(k off. Bunch of paedophiliac hypocrites. Gay Byrne apologised years later apparently. Even he had to acknowledge what a wanker he'd been and how shitty his behaviour was to Annie.

@Kevin-lf4xx 6 ай бұрын

It was the red socks that did it.

@marienorman3731 6 ай бұрын

Well done lady, God forgive the people who speak badly of you.

@sharoncox4776 6 ай бұрын

That poor woman. How awful she was treated by all on that show - a total disgrace!

@deireenpigott2344 6 ай бұрын

Gay not threet her well

@sarahmurphy-nf4yl 6 ай бұрын

People are talking about Bishop Casey s if he's a child!! WAKE up FOLKS..he was a man that had ab affair with a VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.

@bernadetteoreilly8369 6 ай бұрын

I was very disappointed in Gay Byrne that night. He treated Annie Murphy so badly.

@distantrambler 6 ай бұрын

I agree he showed a small kindness that night.

@mrwindsor9082 2 ай бұрын

Gay apologised, rightly, to Annie after this interview. He admitted that he had lost his professional objectivity during their discussion. She brushed off his apology. Annie told Gay that his brusque manner was mild compared to her treatment by the USA media. Annie told Gay that his antagonistic attitude towards her was indicative of the contemporary Irish people's view of her. Although a scandal at the time, Annie and Eamon's affair, was mild compared to the later revelations of clerical sexual abuse. These horrendous crimes were compounded by the Catholic Church and Irish state's failure to acknowledge and address the harm done.

@barbararodgers1368 5 ай бұрын

How dare he treat this lady so badly.She has dignity, He is a looser.Funny how priest can have women . If it wasn’t her it would be someone else

@marienorman3731 6 ай бұрын

I am so proud of Annie Murphy, what a brave woman. I cannot imagine what she went through at the time and over the years. As for the the women in the audience attack her and as for Gay he was less than professional and very rude to her, there’s no words to describe their behaviour. She was stronger than any of them and I’m sure has no regrets and has had and given much love to her son Peter. I am full of admiration for you Annie Murphy. Live your best live💖

@user-hw7uc6gc9h 5 ай бұрын

Jealousy is all that's wrong with the rest.

@user-cy4vw1qj9m 4 ай бұрын

@@gailm778 What does mean? Not what I think you mean I hope.

@roger_melly5025 7 ай бұрын

Not Gay's finest hour - this interview 😒😒

@Maguirearch 4 ай бұрын

That old woman in the pink cardigan (the Bishop's secretary) represents a very old fashioned reverence to the Clergy taking their side in blind obedience...and her sister in the glasses.

@md21656 6 ай бұрын

This show was taken off the air I'm assuming. The worst thing I have ever seen on television. The hos t was an egomaniac.

@mariecarton8611 5 ай бұрын

Gay Byrne was a legend. Missed very much by us all. But his behaviour was directly related to his own 2 daughters adoption from the Convent.

@katoness Ай бұрын

@@mariecarton8611 What are you on about? Lots of people disliked byrne, a condescending and patronising ass.

@ellieandrews8315 5 ай бұрын

👒 👒 👒 off! To Annie Well done for exposing 👏 👍 Respect for you Your son should be very proud

@margueritelamari5481 5 ай бұрын

Annie Murphy is a brave beautiful lady. Who has done a great job bring up her son. I hope she has found happiness in her life.

@md21656 6 ай бұрын

You care more about a cheating bishop than a young boy. All he wanted was to know his dad. That bishop was nervy.

@connollybrid1984 6 ай бұрын

not Gay's best interview

@timcotter8879 5 ай бұрын

.No Doubt about that.

@gerarddoyle2891 6 ай бұрын

All religions are ‘man made’ and the prime purpose was ‘follow the money.’

@breeirish5743 5 ай бұрын

That finished me with Gay Byrne, he was friends with Casey and was not impartial on the night. He treated Annie so poorly and she had huge patience in the face of the negativity Gay showed.

@morrigansraven 3 ай бұрын

You're right. That was one of the most biased interviews I've ever seen. If he really wanted Annie as a guest on the Late Late, but knew that he could not be impartial, due to his friendship with Casey, I really think that he should have had someone else conduct the interview in his stead for that leg of the show.

@marienorman3731 6 ай бұрын

Well said Annie

@Miss_PANDAS 5 ай бұрын

This interview is mad. I know nobody knew it at the time, but Casey has since been found guilty of molesting at least three women when they were girls. This guy was a predator, and even though Annie had sensationalized her affair, she was in her twenties at the time; bishop Casey completely took advantage of an immature and vulnerable woman. It's him that deserves the rebuke, not her.

@noraoconnor1895 4 ай бұрын

U need to have evidence before u accuse someone of these crimes, u could be charged with slander and find urself in prison so be v careful with ur language.!!

@Miss_PANDAS 4 ай бұрын

@@noraoconnor1895Well two of his victims received compensation and his niece was only 5 at the time she claimed he abused her. Most priests are child molesters, I don't think that's news to anyone. I'm certainly not worried about defaming some dead pedophile priest who should of spent his years in a jail cell.

@morrigansraven 3 ай бұрын

@@noraoconnor1895 The Church compensated his niece, Patricia O'Donovan, who was only five years old when he r***d her. The compo in itself is an admission of guilt. Plus there were many reports regarding Casey and his conduct toward young children to authorities in the UK, going back years, that the Church hushed up.

@sarahmurphy-nf4yl 6 ай бұрын

ANNIE is very beautuful

@magzb2642 5 ай бұрын

I would find a man of the cloth a creepy partner.. not surprised he abused children ~a true psychopath ..vile man..

@aidankelly840 7 ай бұрын

she was a victim church bishop then gay burn rte how would gay Byrne like it if the shoe was on the other foot and his daughter has a child for the bishop poor lady she was victimized end of story

@maryfox7440 5 ай бұрын

She is not a victim she knew exactly what she was doing

@aidankelly840 5 ай бұрын

@@maryfox7440 been abused by the so called church she was only 1 of many you seem to be jealous

@maryfox7440 5 ай бұрын

@@aidankelly840 it appears you have a beef with the church and you are trying to justify Annie Murphy's Reckless Behavior having an affair with the bishop. Then she has the gall to write a tell-all book about the affair. From the beginning I believe she knew exactly what she was doing and the possible outcome of the event but decided to go ahead anyway. Let's agree to disagree on that on this matter. Goodbye

@marienorman3731 6 ай бұрын

Eamon Casey was NOT SO INNOCENT!!!!!!!!

@magzb2642 5 ай бұрын

He was a paedophile .😢

@Annekeandrew 5 ай бұрын

What a disgrace the way she was treated. These two fell in love, that is human.

@pascalennis9123 6 ай бұрын

I think,Gay byrne loved Casey more than Annie did

@xxxxxx-tq4mw 6 ай бұрын

Her son seems to be doing well today.

@paulinelee1762 5 ай бұрын

What a Disgusting way to treat a guest on your show ! Shame Shame Shame on the late Gay Byrne for his Snide remarks and allowing those Scumbags in the audience to speak to her like that ! Not One Bit of Blame was put on Casey the Dirty Rat who gave his Innocent Son just 5 Mins of his time ! Like I say Truly Disgusting behaviour from them All. Annie you were just Beautiful, You stood your ground against All of them ! You certainly came out Best against there Blind Loyalty to The Bishop ! Wishing you and Peter All The Very Best of Good Luck in the future ! Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year to you both ! XXXXX

@lipsaver 5 ай бұрын

Casey was a predator. He. Had no responsibility in life. An idiot. With. A goal. In mind. Annie. Wss very educated. And articulate. Gay. Was. Out to. HUMILIATE. HER. ON THST INTERVIEW NOTHING nowadays. These scandals. . Stilll going on . I hope. Annie. Finds. Great. Happiness. And.a long successful. Life.

@AmandaBowe-be6vd 2 ай бұрын

I always felt gb was so patronizing...i remember him asking a man in the audience what he did for a living and when he said unemployed...he dismissed his comment...

@user-gd6qm9qs6n 5 ай бұрын

Once again women are held to a higher standard of moral behaviour. Eve the temptress. A bishop should be held to account far more than a woman recovering from abuse.

@appleeyes9476 4 ай бұрын

Wasnt she only 24 and him 46 or something. Even that tells you a lot. And sadly, if people dont kniw it later transpired he sexually abused at least 3 young girls, including one (his niece) as young as 5. 😢

@sarahmurphy-nf4yl 6 ай бұрын

Gay is sickening the way he makes out that a Archbishop can't be a man and is oh so innocent...and feagile and newds to be projected!! Sigh 😕 😞 😌

@sheilaoneil18 2 ай бұрын

Innocent my foot!!!

@writersblockmemoirs 5 ай бұрын

Annie Murphy was so dignified and articulate. I remember watching this live and was appalled at some of the comments directed at her. I will say though, Gay softened his stance towards her in later years.

@tonimcnamara2806 4 ай бұрын

Gayton was out of order

@user-rx9nh2wj1r 4 ай бұрын

Annie Murphy well done to you. I am so sorry you had to endure such ridicule. I would love to think your story would be believed and met with respect to day.

@md21656 6 ай бұрын

It’s funny the Bishop did not deny it. How lame of these people. He is going to develop a relationship and he is not his son????? I must buy the book. Good luck to Annie and Peter. These people were not in the bedroom.

@sarahmurphy-nf4yl 6 ай бұрын

Some Irish people asking trashy questions... Annie is vulnerable, honest, very dignified and stunningly beautiful. She an Eamon had a 'human experience'.. STOP HER DEMONIZING HER and.let thw Catholic priests MARRY and love and fhwn they'll be happier 💖

@feargusc 3 ай бұрын

What a difficult thing to watch. I remember this when it was aired and had little inkling of just what an inflection point it was on Ireland's trajectory into the future. Annie Murphy took the heat of the first angry pangs of denial for a nation that needed to admit what huge problems it had been cultivating for so long. Like Sinead O' Connor and some other early whistleblowers, at least she's lived long enough to see the country transform unrecognisably in attitudes in a single generation.

@catherinecepuder3520 5 ай бұрын

What a sad and pathetic bunch of people in the audience, bleating like sheep as they try to protect "Their Bishop". Eamonn Casey was a man who succumbed to his emotional feelings in the moment and expressed them in a normal sexual fashion. He had a cosmic connection to Annie Murphy and she to him, the result was their son Peter, who now lives his life on his own cosmic level having inherited good human qualities from both his mother and father. Hopefully Ireland has become more enlightened since this archaic interview!

@user-it4ny4cl3y 6 ай бұрын

I mean the judgement and hyprocisy

@catherineoconnell3213 6 ай бұрын

bishop meets woman at airport - bishop drives like "bat outa hell wearing red socks" rest is his-story been going on since time began...... 19/11/2023

@positvgal8 5 ай бұрын

This interview was allowed to become a witch hunt...the woman in pink was utterly disrespectful of Annie...& that should have been handled by Gay imo...

@patriciawhelan6376 4 ай бұрын

After everything that came out not long after Annie gave her story, I wonder what Gay's thoughts were about this interview.

@denisedaly2307 5 ай бұрын

I'd love to see Patrick Kielty handle this interview 😂😂😂

@admcdanny Ай бұрын

I was friends with Peter Murphy during my childhood in Simsbury, Connecticut, and also got to know his mother. They were lovely people. When the Eamon Casey scandal broke in 1992, I reconnected with Peter...but then we lost touch. I moved to Los Angeles in 1996, and am sorry I never connected with Annie while she was in Riverside, CA. Looking back, she was a woman with much bravery, and she and Peter were very, very kind to me.

@sarahmurphy-nf4yl 6 ай бұрын

Clearly many of the women who claim to know Bishop Casey well have never heard of House devil Street angel syndrome!! 😇

@petercosgrove6530 5 ай бұрын

There is nothing in scripture which would prevent any bishop, priest etc from having a normal sexual relationship.

@user-cy4vw1qj9m 6 ай бұрын

God rest Gay but he gave her a terrible time.

@spodoinklehorse 6 ай бұрын

"Hows the son?"

@janetclaireSays 5 ай бұрын

A true lady.

@user-fz8ny9by4t 6 ай бұрын

She is right, and she loved him and he loved her, and gay has nothing to do with it 😂

@user-cy4vw1qj9m 6 ай бұрын

A lovely woman

@md21656 6 ай бұрын

These people are mean and I think they are full of it. How dare they.

@md21656 6 ай бұрын

Was there a paternity test given. If not why? If not available then There is now. I hope to God she proves them wrong.

@cathycupcake6849 6 ай бұрын

No need her son is the image of him

@marymolloy-vl8ef Ай бұрын

Awful way that woman was treated and he had his biased plants in the front row disgraceful

@margretgray5408 5 ай бұрын

Years later didn’t the Bishop own up ?

@fredm5245 4 ай бұрын

What’s the title of the book?

@Imtired93 2 ай бұрын

Forbidden Fruit: The true story of my secret love affair with Ireland’s most powerful bishop- Annie Murphy

@AnnODonoghue-no6po 6 ай бұрын

Annie Murphy is a Lady

@mariecarton8611 5 ай бұрын

The women and man talking from the front row were planted to cause her the most pain. Did anybody read her book ?. I did and found it very well written. The part with the Cross was very telling. The book was written when Casey refused to acknowledge his son.

@damienholden2132 6 ай бұрын

Jeaus would have came off the cross for Annie fox❤

@hanusiaschostak5100 6 ай бұрын

Very brave lady

@sharongill903 5 ай бұрын

Read her book and I believe everything she said

@positvgal8 5 ай бұрын

'Coquettish'...a word uttered from Gay in reference to Annie...how judgemental and inappropriate at 30:00...😢 she reared her son single handedly while his father disowned him & denied his responsibilities & Gay has the audacity to call him a great man & not compliment her for keeping & rearing her child in the face of Eamonn trying to undermine her & make her give the child for adoption by calling into question her ability to be a good mother...wow ..male arrogant chauvinism on Gay's part...💔

@robicarm 5 ай бұрын

Was the Thorne Birds mini-series based from this affair? It sure pushes the Clinton affair in 2nd place.

@morrigansraven 3 ай бұрын

No; the Thorn Birds was based on a book by Australian author Colleen McCullough. It was written back in the seventies, but this whole situation does read like the plot of a novel.

@peterlawlees2584 3 ай бұрын

This women changed Ireland for the better. Disappointed in Gay.

@elizabethbehan9298 6 ай бұрын

I don't like Gay Bryne ..nosy questions

@angelabehan1558 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely disgusting the way they spoke to her tipical old fashioned Irish why did he run and as for saying he was innocent when he met her your kidding yourself the Catholic church have a lot to answer for

@jenniferholden9397 5 ай бұрын

It takes two to tango, she wasn’t the one who took a vow of chastity. Why do they pretend/lie when we all know about the abuse that they inflict on people who put their trust in them. Sociopathic tendency’s, they use their their long black dresses as a form of control.

@sarahmurphy-nf4yl 6 ай бұрын

Priests.. arch bishops alllll should be allowed to marry and have relationships.

@ungarr 6 ай бұрын

Then what institutions will the paedos join

@thereseflynn7615 23 күн бұрын

Annie said "Eamon loved to take the Mickey out of her" he liked to put it in 2 !

@md21656 6 ай бұрын

Maureen will be fine.

@darnick54 Ай бұрын

I’m glad my parents had gone before the abuse scandals broke, stating with Casey. Lifelong catholics, they trusted the church implicitly and stayed true to their faith till death. It would have broken their hearts to learn of the crimes and cover ups . A tragedy for all who trusted and for all the many decent priests who have been tarnished by association. Never again will the church wield such power over people.

@mariecarton8611 5 ай бұрын

The attitude of GByrne was directly related to his 2 daughters who were adopted out of the Convent this all happened. The NUNS sold the convent and Land for millions to Developers. Sunday Independent newspaper put a picture of the womens bones put into milkchurns to make way for the sale. The women were given dirty births so they would die and so leave the babies to be adopted by well to do families like the Byrnes. Her book relates the infection she had after the birth and the lady who took her in prior to the birth. She had become close to her and came to visit her after the birth. On the two visits she called an Ambulance as she was running a high temperature.

@rosemarymortonjack9387 5 ай бұрын

Why was the bishop meeting her a5 the airport?

@morrigansraven 3 ай бұрын

He was her father's second cousin; she was sent to stay with him for mental and emotional recovery folowing her divorce - I think her family trusted that he could help her recover from what she had been through.

@rosemarymortonjack9387 3 ай бұрын

Ah - all is now clear. Thank you.

@morrigansraven 3 ай бұрын

@@rosemarymortonjack9387 you're welcome ☺

@ceciliapetterson7380 6 ай бұрын

Why did they ha e to share a taxi hic

@seanhosey2566 5 ай бұрын

He took his micky out, lol😅😅😅😅

@ThereseArthurs Ай бұрын

Annie has every right to voice her opinion these people just want to bring her down what a load of crap going to read this book now

@lipsaver 5 ай бұрын

Bishop. Casey. A. Disssgrace. No accountability. What so ever

@AmandaBowe-be6vd 2 ай бұрын

Poor Annie how dignified she was she reared that boy alone and gb saying if hed half the man his father is....wtf

@BridRyan-fu4zx 5 ай бұрын

A lady

@maryfox7440 4 ай бұрын

Lady?

@peterkane8786 3 ай бұрын

…..A lady, yes.

@frederikaguggolz3337 5 ай бұрын

Why not just get a paternity test

@sharonwelch6698 5 ай бұрын

Gay Byrne was so ignorant and biased

@seanhosey2566 5 ай бұрын

This was gay at his horrendous behaviour

@user-fz8ny9by4t 6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂And wonder why it's all funny in this country 🤔🙄😊

@cubs6583 6 күн бұрын

Gay was a total one sided prick that night and he was probably way more experienced than Annie, wonderful lady and a class act

@solohoh 4 ай бұрын

What a tragedy that the name of Jesus is tarnished by people who claim to represent him. "Depart from me ye that work iniquity, I never knew you."

@user-fz8ny9by4t 6 ай бұрын

They were all sagging him 😆ohhhh jealous 😂😂😂 old days

@kmej2548 6 ай бұрын

Bishop Casey gave my Nana the last rights in 2003 in England I spent some time chatting to him He was a lovely, compassionate man

@distantrambler 6 ай бұрын

He was he was a man and we all have failures.

@seanhosey2566 5 ай бұрын

Rte and the church, omg,

@orlaghcassidy3404 Ай бұрын

Why not just do a DNA test ? That would have proved that the Bishop was the father ? Instead of going on about coffee birthmarks and hamdsome men showing up the bedside. That would have amswered Pink Ladys question.

@user-it4ny4cl3y 6 ай бұрын

On the feast of Christ the king, he must be weeping at this carry on.