He subsequently officiated at the marriages of divorcees who wished to remarry but were prevented from doing so under Catholic canon law.
In 2013, he received a suspended sentence under Northern Irish law for officiating at sham marriages being used to circumvent immigration policies.
[5] His father was a trade union official who later became a barrister and his socialist views influenced his son Pat.
[7] Buckley claimed that clashes with his fellow clergy were due to his belief that the quality of the priests' accommodation was much higher than properties in the poverty-stricken area in which it was located.
[9] Buckley claimed that Cardinal Daly later offered to move him to an Australian parish before deciding to assign him to Larne, a mainly Protestant town, in 1984.
[2] In June 1998, Jim Cantwell, director of the Irish Catholic Press and Information Office, said that Cox's consecration of Buckley was valid, but illicit.
The judge noted that Buckley had "had a genuine affinity with these illegal immigrants", but had received financial reward and "lost face and standing in the community" as a result of his actions.