 While in Rome, the Irish churchmen met with a team of investigators appointed by Pope Benedict to examine the four Irish archdioceses and "some other as yet unspecified dioceses".In November 2014 he retired on the grounds of age.The "Apostolic Visitors" included Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop emeritus of Westminster, inspected Brady's archdiocese of Armagh, and Cardinal Seán O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, inspected archdiocese of Dublin.