Toddy Flowey

How does that happen?

There was a priest from Dublin, the father of Si Cullen, he was over there and I was on a flight going to London and I was looking at the Caramagazine and this priest, this Dublin fella, he was hunting paedophiles in the Philippines, you know.

There was a big American naval base there and the sailors were just using the place as a big brothel, you know.

He got the thing closed down.

He got the base closed down, you know?

And he hunts paedophiles, shy culling, in the Philippines.

And I just, I don't know, I think I was in a radio interview and just talking about him.

I saw this amazing fella, like a true man of God, you know?

All the scandals were coming out about the church and now saying that there is still some great men, proper men and women.

And then at a Galway gig, Philip Pribben, who I'm working with in Spur, he came along and said, I'm working with Shay, would you like to do a gig for him?

So we've done a gig in Galway for him.

I was on my way to Australia to do shows and Shay said, stop off and see if the work are down in the Philippines.

So we stopped off in Manila and went up to his house there.

The kids in Manila are thrown in with this could be a cell of 60 prisoners and the young people are thrown in with all the adults, you know, in this fucking massive cell.

If he hears there's a kid there, he takes them out and he'll, you know, give them an education and all and, you know, get them a skill so they'll have a job and all, you know, something like that.

But yeah, he just said, will you come in and play a few songs for these lads in the jail, you know?

He said, yeah, no, brother.

And they walked in.

There's a hundred heads in the cell, you know?

And they just start singing, and they're all fucking crying and all, you know?