Ciarán O'Driscoll

Before they put me down, I get there.

I get there before they get to me.

I put myself right down.

He said to me, you know, there's a place in Blarney run by nuns.

They're taking people like you.

He went off to the car and he got a bit of paper and he wrote down the number.

Again, Brenda, I'd never make the call.

I'd tell him I'd make the call, you know, because he put in the effort of writing down the number.

But I'd be afraid, like, you know.

But I picked up the phone that evening.

At the time, you had little plastic cards and you had little credits on them and stuff.

You were sticking them through the phone.

And a nun from Calcutta, she's still there.

Sister Pancrasia, her name is.

She's from India.

Very, very wise lady, like, you know.

I met fantastic nuns as well.

Some fantastic sisters out there, like, you know.

and they just give their life for the lads they just want to see the lads getting well that's all they don't want anything off the lads they just want to see the lads getting well that's all you know like a guy would come back you know you were the guy recently I think you could have had the guy on the phone recently but a guy would come back like him

and they'd see him they mightn't see him for weeks or months and they're bouncing all over the place when they see this lad clean and sober in front of them they're just that's all they want they want and i know i'm inside out the sister's inside that's what they don't want nothing off anyone they just want to see their men and their lads clean and sober but when they weren't working their first blender it was men in their 50s mid middle-aged men in the 50s 60s late 50s 60s