US President Joe Biden broke down in tears yesterday at Knock Shrine after he met the priest who gave his late son the last rites.
Ex-US Army chaplain Fr Frank O’Grady, who tended to tragic Beau when he was a patient at Walter Reid military hospital in Washington in 2015, spoke to Mr Biden and his other son Hunter.
Speaking afterwards, local priest Fr Richard Gibbons explained: “He laughed, he cried – it just kind of hit the man.