The Sunday Interview: Peter McVerry

McVerry is a household name throughout Ireland, having spent his life championing the cause of the poor and giving a voice to the dispossessed.

Peter McVerry . Picture: Clodagh Kilcoyne

CV: Peter McVerry

**Role:** founder of the Peter McVerry Trust

**Age:** 69

**Lives:** Ballymun, Dublin

**Currently reading:** ''I don't have time to do anything. I read about one

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Young people are shuffling around the yard of the Sherrard Street drop-in centre in Dublin’s north inner city. They’re chatting, laughing and watching Ireland’s most popular priest get his photograph taken in advance of his impending interview. “That man should be sainted. He’s a ...