He was born as the seventh son in his family in County Leitrim and is a faith healer who uses his hands to help those with all different kinds of ailments.
The Offaly publican has been visited by people all over the country and attracted the attention from across the world, including The New York Times.
Joe, who was a monk for over a decade, has been sharing his healing abilities all his life.
He told RSVP Magazine: “I’ve been doing it since I was a baby. My mother and father used to take my hand and do it before I knew what I was doing.
“There was a time when I turned seven and eight when I didn’t like doing it because I didn’t understand. When I was out playing with my friends, I would be called in to heal someone with ringworm - which was very common back then.
“As the years went on, I became very busy with it and I liked to do it because I’m able to help people.
“You call the Lord down to help you when you make the sign of the cross on the affected area. You hope the Lord is with you and helps you to do this. I’m sure it is him that gives us this power of curing. It’s hardly within yourself.”
After finishing primary school, Joe moved from Leitrim to Offaly and eventually became a monk.
“I was a member of a Franciscan order,” he shared. “I come from outside Bundoran in north Leitrim, a place called Kinlough. When I finished my national school, I came to the monks in Clara, Offaly, for secondary school - then I became one of them.
“I was a monk for nearly 13 years. I enjoyed every day of it and I have no regrets for being there. It was a wonderful time.
“People will ask, ‘If it was wonderful, why did you leave?’ That’s a hard question to answer. It certainly wasn’t a woman - most people think it might have been.
“I think it might have been a fulfilment in life. I still go back to see the monks and have dinner with them very regularly.
“I have wonderful respect for the ones that are left. I have no regrets for the days that I spent with them. They are wonderful people.”
After leaving the order, he later went on to run his own pubs.
Joe said: “I used to have a pub in Tullamore, now I have one in Pullough. It’s a little country pub.
“I don’t do much now at the pub, I’m semi-retired, but I like to keep my hands in there.
“I came here in May 1971 and the community gave me a great welcome. They are lovely country people.”
People travel from all corners of Ireland to come to see Joe for his faith healing.
“I get people coming to me from nearly every county in Ireland. We get an awful lot from Dublin, Belfast, Donegal, Cork, Kerry and right up the midlands,” he said.
“They must believe in the cure. There’s not much point in coming and being doubtful about it - that would be my knowledge of it.
“Although I’ve had people come to me and they didn’t really believe in it. But they came anyway. Lo and behold, they were cured.
“I do it every Sunday and spend nearly the whole day at it. I start at 8.30am and keep going until 4PM or 5PM. There’s been days I’ve done it until 8PM - whatever time I get through them all.”
He continued: “They come to me with nearly every ailment. I’m not saying that everything is 100% after. There’s no miracles, but they come to me with cancer, skin ailments, verrucae and all sorts of things. Anything wrong with the skin is the most popular one.
“Ringworm, I would have healed years ago, has become very common again for some reason.
“Whatever they come with, I will do. It doesn’t matter. If they come with depression and anxiety, you have to spend a while longer with people like that because they want to talk and it’s very important to talk with that problem.”
He has people of all ages come to him, with many parents bringing their children that suffer from eczema.
“It isn’t necessarily all old people. We have plenty of young people coming too,” he said.
Joe usually does three visits with people who come to him for healing. He then asks them to return about four weeks later to see how they are doing.
"Are they healed or are they not? Sometimes they are partly healed and we'll do it again."