A ManU footballer is a priest now, sounds confusing, I know. But former Manchester United midfielder Philip Mulryne is becoming a Catholic priest. He was this week ordained as a deacon in the Catholic Church and a priest in 2017.
Mulryne was a team-mate of David Beckham and Ryan Giggs. While players go in glam industry after their retirement from the game, Mulryne chose spirituality. He was also in the news last month, when he was declared bankrupt at Belfast’s High Court.
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Paul McVeigh, who played alongside Mulryne at Norwich, said, “Unfortunately, Phil struggled with injuries towards the end of his career and decided to stop playing and move back to Belfast and try and decide what he’d do with the rest of his days.” McVeigh told the Catholic Herald, “To my amazement, and most likely to the rest of the footballing fraternity’s, Phil decided to train to become a Catholic priest. I was still in contact with him and knew that he had turned his life around and was doing a lot of charitable work and helping the homeless on a weekly basis. Still, it was a complete shock that he felt this was his calling.”