Patrick Kielty thought he was being summoned to his headteacher’s office for a telling off when he was told his father had been murdered in the Troubles.
The TV star’s father Jack, who worked as a building contractor, was shot by members of the loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters in 1988 aged 44 after refusing to pay protection money.
Patrick recalls in a new BBC documentary series, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland: “I remember going to school and like lots of other kids who were 16, putting up your posters for Comic Relief.
