My Childhood with Gearóid Farrelly: My mother had to drag me out of the closet

The comedian and podcaster on being 'a camp kid in an all-boys Christian Brothers school' in 1990s Ireland and the support from his parents

Gearoid Farrelly: '1990s Ireland was a tough place for gay people.'

GEARÓID Farrelly didn’t realise he was gay until he was 21. 

The comedian and podcaster jokes: “I didn’t so much come out of the closet as my mother had to come in and drag me out. She told me she thought I was gay and that there was no need to worry about it.”