He's a very strong man who had a hard time in school, standing up for who and what he was. This is Dublin, which is still fairly unforgiving, but much more liberal than it was when he was at school 16 years ago. It was shit, man. He had a tough time in school, never tried to push it down people's faces, because he's quite straight acting. Never bitter about it. He taught me about love and understanding. Although I still haven't forgiven him for Bette Midler and Shirley Bassey and all that shit! I'm eight years old and I'm watching Yentl." - Colin Farrell about Eamon, Gay Times article
"I didn't want to be around people anymore," [Colin] said. "I was at a dead end. I had made the decision to walk down a cul-de-sac and I was hitting my head against the wall at its end. Then my brother Eamon put his hand down to me. 'Come on,' he said. 'Jump over the wall. There's a school on the other side. Why don't you leave the wall behind and give this a go?'" - Colin Farrell on Eamon saving him from a life of drugs and destitude, Parade Magazine
"...and an elder brother, Eamon, who is a wonderful, strong man, very articulate and very, very warm. He's gay, and he had a hard time at school because of it, but he always stood up for what he was and what he believed in, which I admire immensely--he's a person who's really good to be around." - Colin Farrell about his family, Hello Magazine
"Colin has an accent now which he never had," says Eamon, who speaks in clear, seamless sentences. "He used to speak like me until he got to America. He has this Irish, Irish brogue of an accent. Every time I go over to the States, it's stronger. I can hardly understand him sometimes." - On Colin's accent, but more importantly Eamon's, Vanity Fair