Life in the priesthood: ‘People will have views of us, that we’re all paedophiles — that’s been thrown at us’

“Someone said to me recently, ‘Do you regret that there’s no Mrs Joe?’ and I said to them, ‘Well, she had a lucky escape. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody,’” says Fr Joe McDonald, talking from his Celbridge/Straffan parish in Kildare.