Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

I remember that.

That's in Man Watching.

Yes, yeah.

Which seemed very new at the time.

Nowadays, you can go on to a billion websites doing all this stuff.

Yeah, I was interested in art and I was good at art.

My school wouldn't let you do art for the leaving cert.

Why?

They divided the boys in what they considered the smart ones and the not-so-smart ones, which is so stupid already.

I believe until inter, the not-so-smart boys could do art, but the smart boys had to do technical drawing, which I absolutely despised every fibre of my being.

So I did art...

on my own but then when it came to the Leaving Cert I was the only one who wanted to do it so I studied art on my own for Leaving Cert and I sat in a giant exam hall on my own

had one other out gay student like if you went in there now you know yeah yeah it would be different yeah so you were to go into town you had to get the whatever the bus was the 46a or the 7 or whatever well it's like if i took the internet away from you right and all your gay friends and then i said go find a gay person how would you do that to any markers

Because that was the situation.

I was desperate to find other gay people.

But how do you do that?

Well, then tell us how you did it.

Well, I'd heard a rumour, probably through Niall,

Do you remember there was a cafe on Georgia Street called Mark's Brothers?

And then it became called Simon's Place.