Conor Whelan

I found it just eye-opening, really.

100%, yeah, 100%, I think.

I think selfishly speaking, I think you realize that, you know, I'm going down training here and you're worried about your first touch or you're worried about this or that.

And then you go in there and you see the level that...

You see the level that someone's life has came to, to be honest.

I think just you have a massive appreciation for your own life and I suppose how lucky you are to be able to hop in your car and drive out that driveway.

I found the people down there so nice.

All the facilitators were so helpful.

And I found all the people down there to be very, very nice, to be really...

all at different stages of their journey, all going through their own different things.

And to be honest with you, I found it fairly similar to school setting in ways.

I found a lot of them were actually at the maturity level of students or children.

And I found that

I suppose I had a massive appreciation for people that just put up their hand and said, look, I'm not well.

I'm going in here and I'm going to give it a shot.

And like most of them, like not most of them, but a lot of them don't know what they're coming out to really.

And it makes you understand that

You know, all the things we're told in life about, you know, getting your house and getting your steady job and all this stuff like that.

A lot of the time, you know, you can have all this here, but in the background there can be other things going on that can rip all that away from you.

And I suppose the biggest thing I would have seen was the detrimental impact on families and, like, the in-service on Tuesday where...