Brendan O'Connor

If you notice in this interview... The first rule of faith club, there is no faith club, right?

And we all remember those pictures of those babies in the Romanian orphanage.

Okay.

And listen, we didn't even get to the garden and the barbecue.

We might come back to them the next time.

The Hacks Hack from the Irish examiner, Denise O'Donoghue.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Okay, so you have one final ambition left.

Now, you did perform for the Pope at the Vatican at Christmas.

Did he induct you into any kind of Knights of Columbanus or any kind of papal knighthood or secret society, no?

Yeah, and I spoke to Paul Cullen of the Irish Times, wrote a book about this, and his big thing was he didn't know anything about his first couple of years, and that that was clearly so important in making him who he was.

So I think in a lot of historical adoptions, not all cases, but the adoptive parents would have brought their new baby home at, say, two or three months.

Really?

Yeah.

Are your parents, are your parents alive?

Yeah.

And so they lived to see that.

And that's when the bonding begins.

That must have been a proud moment.