Noel and Liam Gallagher's mother was the "instigator" of their reconciliation

She told Ireland's Mail on Sunday newspaper: "I was the instigator, yes. But sure, wasn't it always going to happen at some time or other?

"It was their choice, of course.

"Look you can't force them to do things they don't want to do.

"You just have to say, 'Get on with it' and I said that."

The 82-year-old matriarch is relieved her warring sons have finally made up.

She said: "It's great, because nobody wants their kids falling out, do they?"

Peggy is looking forward to seeing Noel and Liam back on stage with Oasis over the summer.

But she admitted: "I'll be glad when it's all just over because it makes me get too stressed."

The Irishwoman is hoping to travel to Dublin to see Oasis perform in Croke Park, but she has just had a knee replacement operation so is currently unsure as to whether she will be fit enough to make the journey from her home in Manchester, North West England.

She said: "I'm hoping to get to the Oasis concert in Dublin in August if I can hobble around. That's my plan anyway... it will be great.

"I know the Irish fans are thrilled about it. There's great excitement in Ireland about the reunion tour and it will be lovely to see family there, also my sister Kathleen. I am really looking forward to the Dublin one."

Peggy - who also plans to see her sons at their homecoming shows in Manchester - knows the road to recovery will be long.

She said: "It's still sore. I'm sick of bloody exercising it, up and down the stairs, they say it takes anything up to nine months to be right again... I am finding it hard going up and down the stairs. Still, we have to get there, we have to get on with it."