Laurence Forristal (5 June 1931 – 10 October 2018) was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate, who served as the Bishop of Ossory from 1981 to 2007.

He pursued further studies at the Propaganda Fide College in Rome and was ordained there as a priest for the Archdiocese of Dublin on 21 December 1955.

In the same year, he was appointed Vicar General which gave him a ringside seat for the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979.

[1] As Auxiliary Bishop in Dublin his role and knowledge of clerical child sex abuse was considered by Judge Yvonne Murphy.

[1] In 1994, he decided to close Ireland's oldest seminary, St Kieran's College as a result of falling numbers.