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Jennifer Forde

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
249 total appearances

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Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

He would have gone to, it's said he went to Declan's in Cabra first and got expelled and then went to O'Connell's in the north inner city.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

Now, O'Connell's

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

Christian Brothers School, probably one of the most famous schools in Dublin.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

My own father would have gone there.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

People would have got a scholarship and it would have seemed to have been a really prestigious school.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

Past pupils would have included James Joyce, Pat Kenny, the broadcaster, former Taoiseach Seรกn na Mรกs, PJ Marra.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

Also, interestingly, and probably a relative contemporary of Christy Kinnan would have been Tony Gregory would have gone there, who would play a huge prominent role in the anti-drugs marches in the city.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

So he would have gone, he would have, again, that would have been sort of a prestigious school.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

But he seems to have not thrived.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

And then I think we get into a bit of a grey area when he leaves school.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

Yes, and that was a thing that he kept up, I think, through all his life, one way or another.

Crime World
Episode 1361: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 2)

And obviously his sons would have a huge interest in boxing as well.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

The curtains are drawn all the time.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

I think they had to go around for something.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

The whole front room is full of computer equipment.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

They had to have a safe room in the house.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

They boarded up the window.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

I mean, there's no way these people were just straightforward embassy workers doing passport checks at the airport.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

It was a kind of funny sort of switcheroo of suddenly reading the world differently.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

I mean, they do fill your head with this idea that it's happening all the time.