Ciarán O'Driscoll
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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She's a miracle, actually.
She's a miracle.
I used to spring up to the window, they'd push the linky bear off the window and I'd look through the window and I'd be okay.
But where I'm coming from is these guys came at me again and they said, you need to leave the hospital.
And again, I always walk the programme, like, you know, I walk the programme and, you know, because I can't be preaching to anyone if I don't do it myself, you know.
So, and again, I respect people and I treat people the same way they treat me.
There's some people who don't treat me right and I don't.
i don't go around treating them bad i just treat them the same way they treat me there's people who ignore me and i i ignore them i i know then it's it's a thing but they walk past me so i walk past them now i've done nothing to them they've done nothing to me we only know each other probably 10 or 15 years yeah you know they walk so i walk past them as well and i just treat people the same way but i follow other people who you know who respect me but um
they said you need to leave the hospital and I wasn't going anywhere without my baby and I got a brainwave they brought me back up in the lift anyway and my car was down in the underground car park and I stayed in the car for 12 nights and there was lads there was lads in recovery they was come to the car park and em
they just bring me some food and stuff.
And I used to go off to the Wilton Bar.
There was, as again, the country was locked down, all the bars were closed.
There was little picnic benches, you know, for the beer garden.
And we'd sit there and we'd chat and we'd talk and they'd top me up.
Then again, they'd go down to the Tesco down the road and get coffees and stuff.
There could be seven or eight of them there.
These are the same guys now.
They were like, I can't think of, I should use a name anyway.
When my brother was dying, they were out in the hall in the CUH, walking down the hall, you know, just, we're there, Ciarán, you know, if you want us.
We won't agitate you or annoy you or impose on you, but we're there whenever you want us.