Pat Kenny

The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk.

Joining me now to tell us the story of the Oozle Galley is historian and content creator Jane Casey.

It was funny, not to overshare with you, but my wife was watching this with me and she actually said, Pat will like this.

I'm joined in studio by Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart of Horace Lips.

Good morning, gentlemen, and welcome.

Jane, good morning and welcome.

So you've made it to our couch, Pat, in the Fardy household.

Thanks for having us.

Now, this is an extraordinary story.

Now, talk to me about this recently discovered tape and how it made it into vinyl.

I remember as a child passing by the Oozle Galley Lounge on Dame Street in Dublin.

I mean, I presume that from time to time you do get bugs running through cruise ships.

Never knew anything about the Oozle Galley, but you're now going to tell me that story.

So Legend is a thing, it's kind of a spying term.

And we've seen it before, although it's not called this.

It's the idea that you take on a character to go undercover.

So what we have, this is based in reality of sorts.

In the late 80s, 90s, there was a heroin epidemic in all sorts of places, but there was one in England as well.

But then you have to go digging.

And it started to make, after a few high profile deaths,