Ciarán O'Driscoll

What's going on?

I was confused, Brenda.

I didn't know what was going on, really, for years.

I was very, very confused.

I suffered from trauma as well, like and stuff like, you know, and a lot of stuff happened to me in primary school as well.

What teachers did to me and I lived with the primary school was near one of the classrooms I was in.

I was in a couple of classrooms.

One of the classrooms I was in, there was a window looking straight down into the hall, into the home.

and they knew there was stuff going on in the home and stuff and the teachers took it out on me like they judged me and stuff and took it out on me and like they could pull me out of the class at half past nine in the morning put me into a storeroom next to the classroom for holding mop buckets and bleach and stuff

And I'd turn the map upside down.

I'd sit in the map book for the whole day looking at the wall.

Just looking at the wall and I could hear all the lads, the bells ringing.

They're all going in and out of class and in and out of the yard and stuff.

So I always knew I was going to be messed up.

I rebelled against society then, Brenda.

It would have been, and that's not a long time ago, it would have been 89, 90, 91.

Yeah.

Yeah, I rebelled against society then, like.

And then at the time, they were all going to Shorkan Island.

There was a kind of marine place down there where there was all starfish.