John Sweetman

And like, because I remember I was... A medical reason.

A medical reason.

You know, say if you had some horrible fucking birthmark or scar or a turd eye or something in your chin.

Like, I remember when I started in the document section and I had, I only had a goatee at the time.

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.

Yeah.

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.