Joe Doyle - Best Man at Brendan Behan's Wedding

Best Man At Brendan Behan's Wedding

He also revealed that as sacristan in the local church he had been best man at the wedding of Irish playwright and author Brendan Behan when Behan found himself without a best man at the ceremony.

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