Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

All the hairdressers, of course, used to get Tuesdays off.

So they were out on a Monday night.

So all the gay waiters and all that were out on a Monday night.

It was a very mixed crowd, though.

And it was kind of playing a mishmash of different kinds of music and all that.

So it had an interesting crowd.

And so I then went there every Monday for a few weeks.

And then eventually I said to the guy who was running the place, Martin Thomas, who's since passed away.

I said to him, if you pay me, I'll come every week.

And that's how I got the first job.

You know, to this day, I'm not exactly 100% sure, but I didn't have to come back from Japan, but it was the obvious thing to do.

Basically, I had a hepatitis.

Yeah.

I don't even know if they ever tested me for HIV at the time.

Anyway, I came home because it was clear that I was going to have to spend some time recuperating.

And I thought, well, I'll do that.

And home to Ballinrobe.

Yeah, well, that was the first... The port of call.

Yeah, port of call.

But I have an older brother who's gay.