John Sweetman
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And my inspector says to me, have you got permission to grow that?
Now, he was half taking the piss at me.
And I said, well, me missus says it's OK.
But he meant like, had I got permission from the chief superintendent?
But that's how tight it was.
You had to get permission.
But by the time I retired, all of that was pretty much gone.
Now, I had a beard down to there.
I had it tied up and everything.
And I'd rock up in court.
Okay, I'd still wear a shirt, but I wouldn't be wearing a tie and suit and stuff like that.
So I remember being... There was two compliments I'll always remember.
Well, one of them wasn't a compliment.
One of them was a question.
I was asked, I was down in the old central criminal court where now the dome is down along the Liffey there before the big new place was built.
And I was at the back of the court in there.
It was absolutely jam packed.
And a guard there come up to me and says, are you the Bulgarian translator?
You know, because I was there with them.