Emily O'Reilly
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Thank you, Brendan.
Yeah, well, obviously it's the memory of Brian, his birthday as well, because that was just a few weeks before he died.
And yeah, but I think of him literally every day.
Yeah, I said that at his eulogy.
I'm not sure how my siblings, my other siblings thought about it.
But yeah, Brian was, he was the baby.
We were incredibly close as siblings.
Not always that usual to have that close a bond.
And I reckon he was my mother's favourite.
Maybe not exactly at the time he came out.
But in later years, I mean, she absolutely adored him.
And yeah.
Yeah.
No, I was thinking about this.
I mean, there was never I can't pinpoint a moment of sort of before I knew, you know, that Brian was gay.
And afterwards, it was kind of like it was just Brian.
It was sort of seamless.
I mean, I do remember.
I mean, he came out.
very early, very young, it was 1981, so he was only about 20 years of age.