John Mulligan

And Charlie Chalk, there was about 48,000 euros or so in takings from that weekend.

And he was just getting into his car, had just sat into his car with those takings.

And he looked in the windburn and he could see a guy approaching him from behind with a shotgun slung over his shoulder.

So before he could pull out away from the pub, this guy had got up to the car door, opened it and demanded takings.

And Charlie Chalk later recalled, he said, I used to play hurling when I was younger and I fancied my chances a bit.

So I made a grab for the gun and then he fell out onto the road from the car.

And the guy who was the assailant, whose name it later inspired was Frank Ward, he turned the gun on Charlie Chalk and shot him in the knee.

The two raiders made off.

There happened to be police.

A Gardaí asked a set of traffic lights who just happened to be there as this was happening.

But Charlie Cho kind of was brought to St Vincent's Hospital.

And he was lucky to be alive at all because he was bleeding quite heavily and they had to stanch a flow of blood on the scene outside the pub.

So when he got to the hospital, he had still been conscious at one stage.

And he said to a surgeon or doctor, he said, the surgeon said, I can't save your leg.

He said, can you save my life?

He said, yeah, I can save your life.

I can't save your leg.

He said, fine, save my.

life so he had his leg his right leg amputated above the knee so it was a pretty devastating raid but he was very resilient he was back at work soon after and even got to the stage where he said he forgave his attackers so yeah yeah that's quite what a traumatic experience for anybody to to go through and to bounce back in the manner which he did and go back and have his business thriving ever more quite an amazing achievement what sort of reputation does he have as a businessman

I'm sure Charlie Choke would never remember.