Jennifer Forde
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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.
Now, O'Connell's
Christian Brothers School, probably one of the most famous schools in Dublin.
My own father would have gone there.
People would have got a scholarship and it would have seemed to have been a really prestigious school.
Past pupils would have included James Joyce, Pat Kenny, the broadcaster, former Taoiseach Seรกn na Mรกs, PJ Marra.
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.
So he would have gone, he would have, again, that would have been sort of a prestigious school.
But he seems to have not thrived.
And then I think we get into a bit of a grey area when he leaves school.
Yes, and that was a thing that he kept up, I think, through all his life, one way or another.
And obviously his sons would have a huge interest in boxing as well.
The curtains are drawn all the time.
I think they had to go around for something.
The whole front room is full of computer equipment.
They had to have a safe room in the house.
They boarded up the window.
I mean, there's no way these people were just straightforward embassy workers doing passport checks at the airport.
It was a kind of funny sort of switcheroo of suddenly reading the world differently.
I mean, they do fill your head with this idea that it's happening all the time.