Niall Donald
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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 Sean Lamass, 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.
An Algerian man with no links to Ireland was able to obtain an official Irish passport in a false name by claiming he was the son of an Irish woman murdered in the UK.
Dublin Circuit Court was told it was harder to sign up for a mobile phone contract with Vodafone than get an Irish passport after it emerged that Sabuni Abd al-Hamid was granted the document after he claimed to be the son of Catherine Kate Carradine who was murdered in London.
Today, I'm speaking to Crime World's Alan Cherry about how Abdelhamid was jailed after he was caught out in a lie.
I'm Niall Donald and this is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.
So it's a long history of people using dead people to get fake passports.
I mean, I think it was, was it highlighted in the Frederick Forsyth novel, I think, how you did it and, you know, it sort of set off this train.
But this is a very unusual case of an Algerian man who seems to have, you claimed he was the son of an Irish woman who was murdered in the U.K.,
And Maeve even just sort of picked up her name off watching a TV show.