Niall Donald

Like a lot of areas, there was a lot of homes built at one stage and young people grew up.

And, you know, it certainly would be a far more settled area, just like places like Crumlin and Drimna have become far more settled as the time has gone on.

So he would have been brought up in an area that I wouldn't describe as being a sort of upper middle class, middle class area.

He would have been grown up in a working class area, in a big house in a working class area really.

And people would have said to me, for example, that, you know, the connection between the Cavanagh and the Kinnan family, for example, has always been a bit... This is Palmer Cavanagh's parents.

Balmer Cavanagh's parents would have known Christie Kynan's dad.

They would have been friendly.

All those people have no involvement in crime.

There's no suggestion of that, but that it would have been, I suppose, you know, maybe not as straightforward as this is, he's a middle class guy.

It's somewhere along that line, I suppose.

And like most Irish people have, you know, the poverty is only one generation away, I suppose.

Well, he certainly had aspirations and he was very smart in school.

Though, though, it is sad.

And, you know, it just shows you when somebody gets as big a news story as Christy Kinahan that his leaving results have been made public.

Do you know that?

Didn't know that.

And maybe not made public, but the son did a story about how he actually failed his leaving.

Right.

So...

Christy Kinhan, look, there's no doubt about him being smart, but certainly that was said, that he only passed two subjects.