Dave Roche: 'Being Gay and Grey is not as I thought it would be. It has its own special wonders'

Dave Roche, a founder member of the Cork LGBT Pride Festival and one of the country’s leading campaigners for LGBT rights, died suddenly at his home near Macroom in Co Cork, on July 1. Here is Dave, in his own words, on being Gay and Grey

I REMEMBER once when I was starting out in the restaurant business, being told that I would know I was successful when I had a full restaurant, and did not know anyone in it.

The point being that the product was good enough not to require personalities.