Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

I did quite well in school because I'm, you know, I'm lazy, but I'm, you know, book smart.

Yeah, whatever.

So the teachers liked me mostly.

And so I got on absolutely fine.

But I got on fine also knowing that I didn't want to be in Ballinrobe at the time because I was already beginning to feel weird and different in Ballinrobe.

And for a long time,

You know, I blamed Ballinrobe.

You know, Ballinrobe was too small and too, you know, backward.

And that's how I felt at the time.

And so I was aware that it was better for me to be over near me granny in Gormiston.

Like, me best friend in school was Fergus Linehan, you know, from the Linehans, you know, whatever.

And I thought, you know, this is definitely, you know, more my...

my vibe.

This is Rosalind Linehan's son, no?

Yes, yeah.

Went on to become the director of the Theatre Festival and all sorts and all that.

So, you know, I'm on short holidays.

I spent them with Rosalind Linehan, you know, and I thought, this is Dublin art.

Like, not to get dark on you for a second, but there was a notorious paedophile in the school that we all knew about at the time.

Everybody knew.