
When it comes to our GGTV interviews, we always like to keep it
somewhere around five minutes. Preferably under.
With Fiore and Bruna down at that fine main street chipper, Pineto’s, the interview went on for 15 minutes and 33 seconds.
Then again, Fiore Vecchio and his beautiful daughter, Bruna, are Italian. And they do have one hell of a story to tell.
The seeds to this Greystones institution were actually sown just after the Second World War, when strangers Pietro and Bruna moved to Ireland, both travelling from the province of Frosinone in Italy’s Lazio region – the former from Casalattico, and the latter from Montattico, two tiny villages less than three miles apart.
Not long after landing in Ireland – Pietro in Dublin, Bruna in Arklow – these two Italian teenagers met, fell in love and married. Their son, Fiore, came along not too long afterwards.
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