Ciarán O'Driscoll
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I was in a men's prison at 17.
It would have been joyriding at the time, yeah.
Yeah, I was in St.
Patrick's at 17 as well.
It's a juvenile one.
It's a juvenile, that one, yeah.
Like, at the time, it probably would have been a violent prison, like, you know, from anyone from the other side of the country.
Like, you know, the dubs would take it out on you.
So after a while, then you could ask for cop prison.
When you went to court, you could say cop prison.
Judge, could you change that to cop prison?
And he would.
He changed it, so I started going to cop prison then, like, you know.
I remember there was a guy I knew.
He was a football manager of mine.
He worked there.
He wasn't a prison officer.
He was...
He walked in the stores, lovely man, and he met me in one of the landings, and he couldn't believe it.
He was shaking his head, and he was going, what's after happening?