Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

And then my cousin, Gerry Hoban, turned out many years later, I'm talking to Gerry and this comes up.

Well, they got the hoodies from Auntie Kiwi as well.

And they were also obsessed with theirs because, you know, nobody had ever seen anything like this.

And when Gerry grew out of his, our grandmother...

knitted an extra few inches of yellow onto the end of his hoodie stretcher.

Extensions.

Yeah, yeah.

Put extensions on it, you know, to extend the life of his hoodie.

I mean, the times were so different.

Oh, absolutely, yeah.

Well, it was 79, wasn't it, when the poll came?

And I was born in 68, so I was 11.

And he came to knock.

And it was a big deal, like huge deal.

And we all set off without my dad, because my dad was doing one of those, he's a vet, they don't get any time off.

And he managed to get a day off to go and be one of the corralers, you know, tell people where to go.

And so we were all with my mother.

The Pope got delayed at wherever he was first, Galway or wherever it was.

So we were sitting in these like big wet fields for hours on end and waiting for the arrival of the Pope.

He came hours late and then the mask went on for bloody ever.