Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

Well, funny you should say that.

It was.

And for a few days, we didn't discuss it at all.

She didn't want to.

She needed to whatever, think about it, whatever.

And it was awkward.

And she really did struggle for quite a while because she's a very religious woman and old school, you know, proper Catholic.

You know, when the Angela's Bell goes on RTE, she says the Angela's out loud.

And so, yeah, she definitely needed time to get it together.

And two things happened.

One is essentially her brother, the one who was sent off to be a priest.

And he'd been a priest in England, mostly around Manchester.

And, you know, Catholic priests in England are just, they're a totally different breed than the ones here.

Because they never swanned around owning the place.

And essentially what my uncle's job was, when you really would talk to him,

was he was basically running a community centre.

Yeah, it was pastoral, pastoral work, yeah.

And so he had a very different attitude to the world as a Catholic priest in England than, you know, the kind of Catholic priest you might have been used to here at the time.

And he basically told me mother to get over it.

He basically said, you know, just get over it, whatever.