Aaron

How's it going, Ciarán?

Thanks for having me on.

Come on, so I was born and raised in Ballymun.

I'm 25 now.

I live just outside of the county, but I'm very much involved in the county.

I've worked in the county extensively.

I work as a youth worker now in Rialto, but I work also as a socially engaged artist.

I've done loads of projects with people of different generations in Ballymun.

I'm very much involved in the local skills and youth clubs and the art centre and so on.

And I think what that woman before me has said to Rebecca, was it?

She fails to leave out a big part of the puzzle here.

And the responsibility, the way she's putting it, the responsibility is on the people of Ballymore saying they need to cop on.

Well, I can tell you, the words they need to cop on is not a good enough answer to what is going on in the community, right?

As someone from the community, that is not a good enough answer for what is going on in the community.

This is a community that has been systematically deprived for generations after generations.

The young lads who were involved in crime, so there was a young man, a young boy, sorry, found a gun in the area.

You have to ask, why was that boy able to get his hands on a gun?

Why was it going in the area?

It was in the area because there's gang problems going on in the community.

There's gang violence in the community.