Ciarán O'Driscoll
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He was calling me every kind of April to come in and do the pledge with the lads and talk about my story.
Like prevention is better than cure.
And then Ballin College, the community school in Ballin College through Anne Fleming, the chaplain.
I came in there for years for Anne Fleming, for a lot of classes for her.
And I went as far as Skibbereen to Mercy Heights.
It's gone now.
I think they're all in the one tech now.
Skull, I did Skull, actually in the rowing club in Skull.
Is it the rowing club or the sailing club?
They brought the school down to the sailing club.
Katie French, when she passed away, there was a lot of, at the time, there was a lot of...
There was a lot of publicity around Katie French, and there was two lads, a guy, Gray, and a guy, Doyle, died in Ballybeg in Waterford in an estate.
They got bad cocaine at the weekend, and there was nothing about them.
It was all about Katie French.
So I spoke from the altar and Liz Duggan in the church.
The church was full.
The two families were at the front.
There was no racking at the time, no.
I didn't know anyone, which makes it easier for me when I don't know anyone.
they put it both families so you they kind of like you watch what you're going to say and stuff and to be gentle but i'm like and they were very good to me afterwards like you know there was a lady outside the door and she said will you come to um don maurice next week i said i'm trying to get over this now like you know i contact me again like you know i am she said will you come off to don maurice and speak to our um our parish on don maurice then i i've lost really kind of killed the um sacred heart and clan of guilty