Ciarán O'Driscoll

I always had respect.

for the church and stuff like, you know, my faith was deep and I learnt as well, like, you know, no matter what happens in my life, I don't have to pick up a drink or a drug.

No matter what happens in my life, I can't go there because this is progressive.

This will only get worse.

I see it day in, day out, as you know, Brenda.

day in day out i see people i was dealing with a guy all morning you know he didn't want to come in you know me and another guy there was another guy brought collecting cuh and brought him over like you know but he just he just didn't want to go in the addiction has him he's not ready at the moment and when he was going away up the guy in the van they rolled down the window and i said look we'll be here when you're ready you know that he's he's not um i'm sorry for putting you all out and putting everyone out i said you're not i said we'll be here when you're ready like you know

That's what I said to the guy who brought him, where he sat in, I came out of the room and there was four of us in the room at one stage with him and then there was the sister sat in with him and I stepped out and I said to the guy who, no, a guy who's in strong recovery, I said to him, you want him here, I want him here, sister wants him here, his mother and father want him here.

Does he want to be here?

Not at the moment though, you know.

Not at the moment.

He's just not ready.

But please God, he will be ready soon.

I'm here now today.

Yeah.

And I hope I help someone.

i was years ahead of my time i believe i was years ahead and this is all like there's people give me high fives on the street and i go to funerals and i go to weddings they say come on well done you're an inspiration and you if anyone deserves a medal you do you know i get embarrassed really you know um but this is internal stuff this is internal what went on for me like you know it wasn't the trouble and wasn't what we spoke about at the start of the podcast

It wasn't all the trouble and the guards and everything.

This was the internal stuff that destroyed me within.

Rockbottom teach me there's no such thing as a hopeless case.

And I see that every day.