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“It was very good. Good, I say very excellent, but I wasn’t out as a kid. I didn’t come out until I was seventeen and, even then, I reflect I was the only person in school that was out, certainly that I know of anyway.”

I’m sitting in Cleere’s, a bar and theatre space on High Avenue, just down from Kilkenny Castle, in the centre of Kikenny city. The place oozes artsy charm; there’s exposed walls, aged posters from past events – and legendary pub food. I’m talking to Alan (pictured above, on the left, with An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, centre), an ex-member of the organising committee for Celebration in Kilkenny – until they couldn’t get the numbers in “But yeah I never really had an issue in Kilkenny, it’s quite a gentle place to grow up. People are very accepting,” he adds.

And yet, Kilkenny is difficult to pin down. Home to a nationally recognised arts scene, it was the first place in Ireland to fly a pride flag over the town hall – but also the county where a brother of the Capuchin Friars recently compared gay people, pro-choice people and adv