A former priest who was jailed for abusing a total of eleven boys in the 1970s and 1980s is due to appeal his sentence today.
Last year, Tony Walsh of North Circular Road was handed down an extra 15 months behind bars after admitting
Tony Walsh was once affectionately known as the 'singing priest' and was well liked in parishes in the Ballyfermot-Cherry Orchard area.
In the late 1970s, he became part of an All Priests Show as an Elvis impersonator.
But away from the stage act, he was a notorious child abuser.
He was defrocked by Pope John Paul II in 1989 and later sentenced to 16 years behind bars for abusing boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
Last June, this sentence was extended by 15 months after he admitted abusing two other boys in 1979.
At his sentence hearing, Judge Martin Nolan said the former priest had acted with 'cold blooded intent'.
Today, his lawyers are due to appeal that sentence and will outline their reasons before a three-judge panel at the Court of Criminal Appeal.
