Nicola Tallent

We'll come back to it because that is something that, you know, certainly some people close to him say that was never the case.

Yeah.

And those who are sort of, I suppose, become his enemies in more recent times would definitely say that like it's a... A stick to beat him.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But there's other little bits that are unusual.

We'll start and we'll go through as much as we know factually and then we'll also discuss the rumours.

So he's born in 1957.

He's six years older than Gerry the Monk Hutch, which just gives him a little bit of a...

And, you know, we can we can see where he is.

He's what I would always say was into the bosom of a respectable middle class family.

Now, some intrigue comes with this.

His father, to my understanding, was a taxi driver who worked the Gresham rank on taxis.

Stephens Green, and that would have been a good job.

Well, I suppose the first house that we can look upon that we know he was in as a child, and he was the only boy in a family of three girls, Denise, Maria and Sally-Anne.

The mother appears to run a B&B from what is a generous Edwardian house.

Do you know the name of the road?

Would they have always been a middle class sort of a home?

We're using that term very loosely here.

Would a taxi driver's wage have bought that house?