Peter Quinn (in absentia) personally liable to repay €145 million of the money he illegally put out of reach of his creditors. D'Arcy was a long-term friend of BBC Radio 2 presenter Terry Wogan, officiating at the weddings of his children. D'Arcy said that Wogan was atheist but spiritual, and that God would admit him to Heaven. Media career D'Arcy hosts a weekly radio programme each Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio Ulster. Since July 1976 he has written the Father Brian's Little Bit of Religion column for the Sunday World. On 15 April 2007, D'Arcy replaced Canon Roger Royle on the long-standing BBC Radio 2 show Sunday Half Hour. On 23 January 2012, the BBC announced that D'Arcy would step down from this role and that Diane-Louise Jordan would succeed him. He left the show on 29 January 2012. On 30 December 2021, he joined Tony Blackburn, Alan Dedicote and Lynn Bowles as one of the contributors talking about radio presenter Terry Wogan on the Channel 5 retrospective programme Wogan: Now You're Talking. Awards D'Arcy received an honorary degree from the University of Ulster. He accepted an OBE in June 2019 Response to the Murphy Report After the publication of the Murphy Report, D'Arcy accused the Vatican of hiding behind legal procedures in not dealing with allegations of child abuse within the church. Following the report's publication, he has called for a radical re-formation of the church's structures and resignations of high-ranking figures within the Irish Catholic Church. References External links Sunday with Brian D'Arcy (BBC Radio Ulster) 1945 births BBC Radio 2 presenters Irish columnists 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Living people British radio DJs Radio personalities from Northern Ireland Passionists People from County Fermanagh Christian radicals Roman Catholic dissidents Roman Catholic priests from Northern Ireland People educated at Christian Brothers Grammar School, Omagh Officers of the Order of the British Empire 21st-century Irish Roman Catholic priests