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It was a pleasure, Nicola.
No, I mean, somebody texted me and said, she must be working with the guards.
And then the next line I read was that the painstaking documentation for the extradition, I thought, no...
If she is secretly working for the guards, they've got the wrong girl because she's not into painstaking documentation.
No, it's just one of those things, obviously.
But yeah, he's in this prison, Dubai Central Prison, which is called, I think, Al-Aweer as well.
So I actually spoke to a couple of people about this prison.
I mean, Sean McGovern was held there.
It becomes a cliche, every foreign prison is a hellhole prison.
But by all accounts, it is a hellhole prison.
There isn't a graded prison system there for rich people or there isn't a difference, you know, which a lot of people presume that if you have money,
you get special treatment, you won't get special treatment and it is a far, far cry from really the kind of multi-billion, multi-millionaire lifestyle he's been living in Dubai.
I think there is a, you know, the guards or the Irish state at least think that the fact that he's locked up in there means that he may not fight extradition as hard as he once might have because the conditions are so bad, there's so little privacy.
Everything is very communal.
You're not going to be in a cell on your own.
Oh, I think he's going to fight his extradition.
I'd be surprised if he just rolls over.
Well, so would I because the stakes are so high.
So if you look at the extradition and what happens in Dubai's extradition proceedings, it isn't like Ireland where everything is open and clear.