Comedian and TV presenter Patrick Kielty has recalled the day his father was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries when he was 44 and Patrick was just 16.
Building contractor Jack Kielty was shot dead by the UDA in January 1988 and his son recalled the tragic day on Friday's Late Late Show.
"I was 16 and it was my brother's 18th birthday. Everybody said they were sorry, everybody hugged us but nobody said they couldn't believe it," he said.
"That is how things were up there, that was the normality of it."
Patrick was called into the headmaster’s office at his school in Dundrum, Co. Down to be told the news.
"With the passing of time, you get a weird clarity to the whole thing. I was in school, and I was called to the headmaster’s office, I was putting up Comic Relief posters and I hadn't asked the headmaster could I do it.
"I thought Brother Fergus was going to sort me out for that. I remember going into the office and Brian Cunningham, my dad's best friend, was sitting there. I could see something was up.
"They said my dad had been shot and I automatically said 'Is he dead?' and straight away they said 'Yes'.
"That drive home, we passed the house where the killers, who shot him, were hiding. They didn't go straight back to Belfast, there was a local house and local people were involved."
Patrick added that his dad was a target for terrorists for several reasons.
"My dad was a building contractor. We subsequently found out in later years that he wasn't going to pay his protection money and he was going to give evidence in a trial, but that trial collapsed," he said.
"So, he was a dead man walking from then. He was also the chairman of the Gaelic club, and he was a prominent Catholic in the area."
Father of two Patrick, who is married to fellow TV presenter Cat Deeley, previously talked about his grief in the recent BBC documentary A Hundred Years of Union.
"For a long time, I didn't want to talk that much about it on the basis that everyone has gone through it up North, everybody has had a touch," he said.
"As time goes on and you process it, it is good to talk about these things. When you tell your story that means other people might tell their story."
Patrick starts the Ireland and UK tour of his new stand-up show Borderline this May and stars in the forthcoming film Ballywater.
