Bishop Brendan Comiskey was a "product of the church culture of his time," his funeral mass has heard.
The former Bishop of Ferns' funeral mass got underway earlier today in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin.
The Clontibret native resigned as bishop in 2002 following the damning findings of the Ferns report, which outlined a catalogue of child sex abuse in the diocese over a period of forty years.
The priest who gave the homily described him as someone with a "huge, huge heart."
However, he said the bishop was a product of the church culture of his time, one that focused on the 'organisation rather than people.'
He emphasised that "failure in one aspect does not define the entirety of a person's life or their great legacy":
