Niall Donald

That would have been a good job, a well-earning job, certainly back in the day when taxis were protected.

His father was also at some point registered, I think, as a dairy farm manager.

And also people would say he was involved in street trading, not, you know...

as a lot of people in Dublin would have been over the years, involved in some stalls and selling in that sort of arena.

So, Christie Kinnan is raised in Cabra, but his birth certificate says that he was born in England, in a place called Perryvale, near Ealing, I think, in London.

So this is the late 1950s when at that time in Irish history, we were, you know, there was high unemployment.

A huge number of people left Ireland to go to England at times to get work.

Many of them returned, but that would have been one of the big points of emigration where young couples got married and went over there.

Certainly, Christy Kenan wasn't raised in England, but he certainly does seem to have had lived there at times.

He's had connections to Birmingham and that sort of area, maybe all his life.

So he's described, I suppose, as a middle class, having a middle class upbringing.

Charlville Road.

Charlville Road.

So, I mean, yeah, I know it well.

I mean, I would have grown up very close to there.

I mean, those houses are worth a huge amount of money.

Now, like a lot of houses in that area, for example, those big houses on the North Circular Road, which aren't far away, there probably would have been times where you would have picked them up at a bargain price.

But it would be very, very far away from some of the figures we've discussed, for example, the grinding poverty in which Gerry Hutch would have been born into poverty.

Certainly Christy Kinnan would have been raised in something that's now worth a huge amount of money, that home.

I, you know, that's part of East Cabra.